The Semmelweis Reflex
Sometimes I get discouraged by what appears to me to be the excruciating slowness with which new ideas enter the mainstream of medical and psychological teaching and practice. In the…
Sometimes I get discouraged by what appears to me to be the excruciating slowness with which new ideas enter the mainstream of medical and psychological teaching and practice. In the…
When I was a girl, my brothers and sister and I had the usual kid-like responses to the world around us. One of them was innocent astonishment at those less…
I just returned from Tampa, Florida and the 2014 IAEDP conference of professionals involved in the treatment of eating disorders. I was there to talk about the very young child…
Morgan and I just returned from the parent-founded and parent-lead F.E.A.S.T. conference, familiar to many of you as an online resource for parents whose children are struggling with an eating…
This blog will be short as I am preparing to attend and speak at the F.E.A.S.T. conference in Texas this week. Very exciting! Recently I was asked to consult on…
Despite the fact that we occasionally receive criticism of our Meal Plan for its supposed “rigidity”, what has struck me after years of reading people’s food journals is the degree…
This is the second time I have blogged about a mother named Charlotte and her brave, sassy and in-your-face crusade to find great care and justice for children with eating…
Some blog topics draw in a continuous trickle of commentary long after they've been published. One such blog is entitled “Determining Ideal Body Weight”. And little wonder. The other…
No doubt I will make myself unpopular (again) with some of our psychiatric colleagues by speaking out in this way about the use of locked psychiatric units in the treatment…
I recently blogged on one of the childhood eating disorders (incidentally not yet recognized as such in the DSM system) called selective eating. I got a deluge of parental comment…