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Eating Disorders, Childhood Sexual Abuse, and Trauma-Informed Treatment
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Foreign Bodies: Eating Disorders, Childhood Sexual Abuse, and Trauma-Informed Treatment addresses the association between eating disorders and childhood sexual abuse, proposing a new way of treating those suffering from eating disorders who were sexually abused as children. Based on testimonies of survivors of abuse who subsequently developed eating disorders, it offers a new form of diagnosis and treatment, arguing that the eating-disorder field often ignores the traumatic sources of eating disorders, leading to some treatment programs not being commensurate, and at times conflicting, with the principles of childhood sexual abuse treatment.

The case studies used to highlight the link between childhood sexual abuse and eating disorders are presented from the perspective of the women involved, in their own words. Their voices are supplemented by Gur's own stance as a clinician specializing in the treatment of sexual abuse and CPTSD. The book is divided into three parts: the first deals with eating disorders, childhood sexual abuse, and the association between them; the second examines the treatment of eating disorders and childhood sexual abuse; and the third offers a new form of diagnosis and treatment for eating disorders.

This book will be of great interest to researchers and postgraduate students in the eating disorder field of psychotherapy, psychology, or psychiatry, plus those studying the treatment of trauma. It will also be of interest to clinical dieticians, psychologists, social workers, doctors, nurses, eating disorder specialists, and policymakers in the mental health field, as well as eating disorders sufferers and those who care for them.


Contents:

Introduction

PART ONE: EATING DISORDERS, CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE, AND THE LINK BETWEEN THEM

Chapter 1: Eating disorders

Chapter 2: Childhood sexual abuse-From witchcraft and hysteria to CPTSD

Chapter 3: The relation between childhood sexual abuse and eating disorders: A meta-view of the professional literature

Chapter 4: Women speak of the association between childhood sexual abuse and eating disorders

Chapter 5: Eating disorders in the service of dissociation

Chapter 6: The betrayed/betraying body: Eating disorders as ways of coping with the feminine body, sex, and sexuality in the wake of childhood sexual abuse

PART TWO: TREATMENT OF EATING DISORDERS AND CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE

Chapter 7: Treating eating disorders

Chapter 8: Specialist sexual-abuse treatment

PART THREE: A NEW DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT PROPOSAL

Chapter 9: Women, "madness," and a new diagnosis

Chapter 10: Treating CPTSD

Chapter 11: Eating disorders, CPTSD, and appropriate treatment

Epilogue

Appendix: Dawn's story


PRODUCT DETAILS

ISBN-13: 9780367489250
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Publication date: February, 2020
Pages: 258
Weight: 453g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Eating Disorders, Psychotherapy

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