An Evolutionary Approach to Understanding and Treating Anorexia Nervosa and Other Eating Problems
- 1st Edition - January 30, 2024
- Author: Shan Guisinger
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 9 0 4 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 9 0 5 - 0
Understanding and Treating Anorexia Nervosa: A Biopsychosocial Approach offers a new evidence-based intervention for anorexia nervosa that accounts for strange symptoms. The book… Read more
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Request a sales quoteUnderstanding and Treating Anorexia Nervosa: A Biopsychosocial Approach offers a new evidence-based intervention for anorexia nervosa that accounts for strange symptoms. The book provides an intervention that is more accurately tailored to the three phases (biological, psychological and social) of interventions observed in this disorder. The book's chapters walk the reader through motivational interviewing, dialectical behavioral therapy, and other clinical techniques to help tailor therapeutic work to specific challenges. Written by Dr. Shan Guisinger, a leading expert in the field, this book will be the main treatment guide for treating anorexia nervosa. Treating anorexia nervosa (AN) can be one of the hardest job clinicians face. People with AN fear eating despite being seriously underweight and experiencing hallucinations. Current interventions lack options to address such non-traditional symptoms ultimately resulting in relapse.
- Reviews the neuroendocrine changes altering behaviors and attitudes toward eating, activity and body image
- Introduces a novel treatment that relies on the biological, psychological and social phases
- Discusses psychotherapy outcome research on both adolescents and adults
Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Psychiatrists Dieticians, school counselors, pediatricians, and other physicians
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. A brief overview of human evolution and eating problems
- Comfort and meaning
- Chapter 2. Understanding anorexia nervosa
- Claire
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-III (DSM-III) in 1980
- An explanation from evolutionary behavioral ecology
- Chapter 3. Overview of the Adapted to Famine Treatment for anorexia nervosa
- Understanding and treating passionate convictions, obsessive desires, and compulsive behaviors
- A perfect biopsychosocial storm
- The sameness of AN: Lynette and Rachel
- The adapted-to-famine treatment challenges the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders definition of AN
- The Adapted to Famine Treatment for AN
- Three stages of recovery
- Biological causation is good news for the therapeutic relationship
- Making new meaning
- Therapists, dieticians, physicians, and loved ones can help
- Chapter 4. Treatment in the starving phase
- General clinical considerations
- Educational component of AN-AFT's CBT
- Motivational interviewing for challenging the AN agenda
- Acceptance and commitment therapy techniques with AN
- Working with adolescents
- Using motivation interviewing with adolescents
- Other clinical situations
- Working with younger children
- Chapter 5. Nearly weight restored
- The razor's edge
- Chapter 6. Weight recovered phase
- The relationship in Phase 3
- Were people who developed AN really mentally ill before the illness?
- Perfectionism
- Do or die: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Interventions for symptoms in Phase 3
- What if nothing you do would change your weight?
- Mourning the loss of anorexia's sense of being special and of having an important mission
- Chapter 7. Problems with the DSM
- The interpreter explains it all
- Patient's search for an explanation
- Other evidence overlooked by DSM authors
- Inference to the best explanation
- Chapter 8. Psychotherapy outcome research
- History
- Eating disorders only make sense in the light of evolution
- Chapter 9. The evolutionary sense of other eating disorders and fatness
- ARFID
- Bulimia and Binge Eating Disorder
- Fatness
- Bred to store fat: thrifty genes and healthy brides
- Selection by genocide
- Epigenetic regulation
- Chapter 10. Conclusion
- Changing the story has social consequences
- A deadly double bind
- Imagine a world where no one dieted
- Appendix 1. Melissa Espinoza's stories
- Index
- No. of pages: 236
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 30, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443189043
- eBook ISBN: 9780443189050
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Shan Guisinger
Shan Guisinger is an eating disorders therapist and researcher. Shan trained as an evolutionary biologist before getting a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in clinical psychology and doing postdoctoral work at the Yale University’s Eating Disorders Clinic. In her research and practice, she seeks to understand how biological, psychological, and social factors interact to create or ameliorate emotional and eating problems. She has written about how chaos theory can help us understand the spontaneous patterning of evolution and our emotional and cognitive lives. Shan has authored theoretical articles on the interplay of individuality and interpersonal relatedness for The American Psychologist and on the evolutionary sense of anorexia nervosa for Psychological Review. She is coeditor and author of a recent book on some applications of chaos theory to psychology from Oxford University Press.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, The University of Montana, Missoula, USARead An Evolutionary Approach to Understanding and Treating Anorexia Nervosa and Other Eating Problems on ScienceDirect