Trauma-Informed Approaches to Eating Disorders

Andrew Seubert, NCC, LMHC, is the cofounder of ClearPath Healing Arts Center in Corning and Burdett, New York. A licensed psychotherapist for 40 years, he has an extensive background in existential-Gestalt Therapy and in music therapy, and provides eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) consultation and training for clinicians. Andrew specializes in working with trauma, posttraumatic stress, eating disorders, and the integration of spirituality and psychotherapy. Pam Virdi, MEd, RMN, CPN, is an accredited EMDR consultant, integrative psychotherapist, lecturer, and supervisor who now works full-time in private practice with adults, couples, and young people in Birmingham, UK. She specializes in the treatment of eating disorders, complex trauma, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). She is an accredited member of The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and EMDR Europe. Originally trained as a psychiatric nurse, Pam has devoted the last 24 years to the National Health Service (UK) as a specialist psychotherapist and trainer in an eating disorder service in Birmingham.

Contents


Contributors


Foreword by Michael P. Levine, PhD


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introducing Our Terms


SECTION ONE: OVERVIEW AND RECOGNIZING THE TERRITORY


1. The Many Faces of Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa (AN), Bulimia Nervosa (BN), Binge Eating Disorder (BED), Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorder (OSFED), Bulimarexia, and Orthorexia


Maria Zaccagnino, Martina Cussino, Chiara Callerame, and Cristina Civilotti


2. Trauma and Eating Disorders: The State of the Art


Johan Vanderlinden and Giovanni Luca Palmisano


SECTION TWO: TRAUMA TREATMENT IN EATING DISORDERS: A COMPLEX AFFAIR


3. Recognizing the Territory: The Interaction of Trauma, Attachment Injury, and Dissociation in Treating Eating Disorders


Holly A. Finlay


4. The Centrality of Presence and the Therapeutic Relationship in Eating Disorders


Carolyn Costin


SECTION THREE: BRAIN, BODY, AND EATING DISORDERS


5. The Neurobiology of Trauma and Eating Disorders


Rayane Chami and Janet Treasure


6. What Doctors, Dietitians, and Nutritionists Need to Know


Edward P. Tyson and Carolyn Hodges Chaffee


SECTION FOUR: THE PHASE MODEL—PHASES I AND II


7. Assessing “Trauma-Driven Eating Disorders”: A Road Map Through the Maze


Pam Virdi and Jackie Nicholls


8. The Preparation Phase


Andrew Seubert


9. Discovering the Power of Movement: Dance/Movement Therapy in the Treatment of Eating Disorders and Trauma


Susan Kleinman


10. The Courage to Feel: Eating Disorders and the Case for Emotions


Andrew Seubert


11. Neurofeedback and the Eating Disordered Brain


Amelia McGinnis


SECTION FIVE: APPROACHES TO TRAUMA PROCESSING AND EATING DISORDERS—PHASE III


12. Interpersonal/Relational Psychodynamic Treatment of Eating Disorders


Jean Petrucelli


13. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)


DaLene Forester


14. Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Eating Disorders


Irene Rovira


15. Ego State/Parts Work in the Treatment of Eating Disorders


Andrew Seubert and Robin Shapiro


16. IFS (Internal Family Systems) and Eating Disorders: The Healing Power of Self-Energy


Jeanne Catanzaro, Elizabeth Doyne, and Katie Thompson


17. Structural Dissociation in the Treatment of Trauma and Eating Disorders


Kathleen M. Martin


18. Second Helpings: AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy) in the Treatment of Trauma and Eating Disorders


Natasha C.N. Prenn and Jessica K. Slatus


19. Eating Disorders and Hypnosis


G. Trevor Hadfield


20. Energy Psychology in the Treatment of Eating Disorders


Phil Mollon


21. Somatic Experiencing: The Body as the Missing Link in Eating Disorder Treatment


Paula Scatoloni


22. Boats and Sharks: A Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Approach to the Treatment of Eating Disorders and Trauma


Rachel Lewis-Marlow


23. Art Therapy: Images of Recovery


Deborah A. Good and Cynthia “Cyd” Davis-Hubler


SECTION SIX: PHASE IV—RELAPSE PREVENTION, REEVALUATION, AND INTEGRATION


24. Recovery and Beyond: Dealing With Triggers and Setbacks


Marnie Davis and Joslyn P. Smith


25. Trauma-Informed Approaches to Body Image Disturbance: A Historical Review for a Holistic Future


Madeline Altabe


26. Finding Self Again: The Dismantling of Eating Disorder and Trauma Identity


Michael E. Berrett, Sabree A. Crowton, and P. Scott Richards


Afterword


Index