This is the most important book for eating disorders therapists published in recent years. Beautifully written, this comprehensive book by Kathryn Zerbe, MD, author of the landmark The Body Betrayed, explains how to successfully treat patients from the initial appointment through termination. She weaves together comprehensive pearls of evidence-based information with cases, compassion, art and history, and holistic approaches.

The book is divided into three main sections. The first is a road map for what transpires during the opening, middle, and termination phases of treatment. The second covers treatment and recovery through the lens of the developmental life cycle. The final section addresses some of the “special problems” clinicians face, such as patient sexuality, transference reactions, and inevitable countertransference responses.

Filled with clinical case examples from her own years in practice, sample dialogues, and easy-to-read tables and charts summarizing important clinical tips, Integrated Treatment of Eating Disorders is an invaluable resource for all mental health practitioners. It tackles complex issues in a way that is hands-on, practical, and applicable, offering clinicians real answers to essential questions so that they may more effectively and compassionately treat their clients.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I. The Stages of Treatment of Eating Disorders
1. The Opening Phase
2. The Middle Phase
3. Termination

Part II. Treatment of Eating Disorders over the Life Cycle
4. Adolescence
5. Adulthood
6. Middle and Later Life

Part III. Special Issues in the Treatment of Eating Disorders
7. Sexuality
8. Managing Transference and Countertransference
9. Assessing Outcome and Resiliency

REVIEWS...

“Grounded in a tremendous depth and breadth of scholarship and extensive clinical experience, this book is perhaps the field’s most eloquent synthesis of contemporary clinical perspectives on eating disorders to date. Written with heartfelt caring and poetic perceptiveness, this is a book I will return to often, and one that I will eagerly recommend to students, trainees, colleagues, patients, and their families.”
—Joel Yager, MD, Editor-in-Chief, Eating Disorders Review

“An experienced and expert clinician-scholar, Dr. Zerbe offers a thoughtful discussion and synthesis of diverse therapeutic approaches that will help clinicians transcend the limits of any one particular method as they navigate treatment of these complex and multifaceted illnesses.”
—Anne Becker, MD, PhD, ScM; Director, Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital

“Kathryn Zerbe has done it again! This is perhaps the most comprehensive book in the field of eating disorders ever to be attempted and successfully completed. The scope is astonishing—its breadth equal only to its depth and attention to detail.”
—Adrienne Ressler, MA, LMSW, National Training Director, The Renfrew Center Foundation

“With a compassionate heart and an integrative mind, Zerbe captures the practical essence of the most complex interventions and distills them into accessible, user-friendly applications, making us more meaningfully and effectively engaged in our patients’ growth.”
—Beth McGilley, PhD, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Kansas Medical School