Eating Disorders and Expressed Emotion

Renee Rienecke, PhD, FAED, is Director of Research for Eating Recovery Center/Insight Behavioural Health Centers and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University. Daniel Le Grange, PhD, FAED, is a Benioff UCSF professor of Children’s Health, and Director of the Eating Disorders Program in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Le Grange is also Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Chicago.

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Construct of Expressed Emotion; Chapter 2: Expressed Emotion and Psychosis; Chapter 3: Beneath the Surface of Expressed Emotion (EE): The Clinical Relevance of Possible Mechanisms Underlying EE in Eating Disorders; Chapter 4: Assessment of Expressed Emotion; Chapter 5: Expressed Emotion and Anorexia Nervosa; Chapter 6: Expressed Emotion and Bulimia Nervosa; Chapter 7: Emotionally Driven Behaviors (Expressed Emotion, Accommodating, Enabling, and Splitting) and How to Manage Them in the Social Network of People with Eating Disorders; Chapter 8: Cultural Differences in Expressed Emotion; Chapter 9: Factors Associated with High Expressed Emotion versus Low Expressed Emotion; Chapter 10: Future Directions in Expressed Emotion.