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Long-Term Treatment of Eating Disorders: Tools for a Journey
Part 2: A Perspective from Research
By Kathryn J. Zerbe, MD, Oregon Psychoanalytic Center, Portland, Oregon

In the second article of a two-part series, Dr. Zerbe describes four principles she finds useful in working with patients who need longer-term psychotherapy who or tend to stay in in treatment for at least one year. One principle is a notion gaining traction in contemporary psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy that the best way to alleviate suffering is to actually help the patient “observe, process, speak about, draw attention to, and bear emotional pain” in order to eventually transform it.

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• Predicting rapid relapse in patients with bulimia nervosa

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• Food addiction in overweight and obese teens seeking weight loss treatment
• Understanding risk factors for eating disorders in male teens
• Short-term intensive family therapy for adolescent eating disorders
• A new look at personality in eating disorders
• and much more