Read more about the article What numbers do we really need?
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What numbers do we really need?

For years now we have keenly felt a need to share Kartini Clinic treatment results with colleagues and with our families in order to answer some basic questions about two…

Read more about the article Holding Our Collective Breath, One Child at a Time
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Holding Our Collective Breath, One Child at a Time

Treating food phobia is hard. Sometimes it is so hard, we almost resolve to stop doing it. But then we get a call about a young child whose parents are…

Read more about the article When the shoe is on the other foot
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When the shoe is on the other foot

This last weekend was a nightmare, the kind that recedes into the depths of denial and forgetting as quickly as it can.  That is the nature of trauma.   My…

Read more about the article Who owns the darn weight issue anyway?
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Who owns the darn weight issue anyway?

There is always a lot of talk and anxiety about a so-called "ideal body weight" (IBW) in patients with anorexia nervosa. It is sometimes called "expected body weight" "goal weight"…

Read more about the article The Role of Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Eating Disorders
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The Role of Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Eating Disorders

Together with members of my clinical team I recently attended the Columbia River Eating Disorder Network's annual conference, where the key note speaker was a well-known local psychoanalyst, Dr. Kathy…

Read more about the article The Brain Disorder Controversy in Eating Disorders
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The Brain Disorder Controversy in Eating Disorders

Over the past several weeks there has been a burning controversy on the Academy for Eating Disorders' email listserv that started when I used the term "brain disorder" to describe…