Sometimes our work brings tears to our eyes.Today I discharged four year old Gabriel after one week's intensive treatment for food phobia in Kartini Clinic's Food Phobia treatment program. Jill,…

Editors' Note: We have asked our clinical staff to respond to a recent study suggesting that certain web sites may be undermining eating disorder treatment and complicating recovery from these…

This week's blog is an excerpt from my upcoming guide to eating disorder treatment, Give Food A Chance (PSI Press, 2010).  This excerpt deals with the essential role of the…

In the next few blogs I am going to excerpt a few relevant parts from my upcoming book about eating disorder treatment called Give Food A Chance, to be published…

Previously I have discussed relapse.  Now I would like to put together a short list of concerning symptoms to be aware of. These symptoms, should they occur, must prompt a…

In this blog I am going to share a short poem written by a ten year old girl with anorexia nervosa who came to Kartini Clinic years ago for eating…

This is an excerpt from my upcoming book Give Food A Chance (to be published this summer by PSI Press) taken from a chapter about parents, their essential roles in…

Occasionally our team will ask our psychologist, Dr. Rebecca Seifert, to do psychological testing on a patient.  Such testing is time consuming and expensive.  Why do we do it and…

This is a blog about excess. And because it is a Kartini blog, it is about food. How can we find our balance in this country with one large contingency…

I recently engaged with fellow eating disorder treatment providers in an online discussion about the biological basis of anorexia nervosa. I want to share parts of that discussion and my…