Dear Readers, We get a lot of questions about the use of hypnosis in eating disorder treatment, so I thought it would be useful to have Bart Walsh LCSW write…

My team shudders to hear it:  "I've got an idea…"  "I wonder what would happen if…"  since those words are usually the prelude to me revamping one of our programs…

This past week the world of doctors, dieticians and parents lost a quiet, gentle leader.  Dr. William Connors was considered by many to be the first guru of all low…

I gave a talk a few nights ago at Catlin Gabel School, a private school in Portland Oregon.  We spent a long time afterwards just talking with the school counselors…

It's 1959, a mild day in California and we kids are playing outside.  There are four of us and four of our friends, we range all over the neighborhood and…

At the Kartini Clinic we tell our parents (over and over again) "Please don't let anyone one, even another doctor's office, weigh your child while they are in treatment here."…

It's not every day that I have an epiphany about anorexia nervosa.  But today I was (re)taught something by a young man I know, respect and treat.  It wasn't entirely…

I have blogged on food phobia before, but today it was two desperate phone calls from across the country that spurred me to revisit this issue.  The ages of the…

Scene:  hospital bedside, the doctor is making rounds.  The patient, a 16 year old boy, is in his hospital bed having been admitted earlier that day.  His mother is next…

The Future of Psychotherapy for Mentally Ill Children and Adolescents by John S. March is not the kind of article I usually read — or so I thought until our…