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Food for Thought: Eating Disorders and Trauma

Session #: 710-220
Presenter(s): Lisa Ferentz
Session Length: 2 hr. 00 min.
Event: 2010 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium
Date: March 25-28, 2010

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Most treatment approaches for eating disorders focus on eating management, calorie counting, and food diaries. They have a high failure rate. No wonder clinicians are often hesitant to work with eating-disordered clients. This workshop introduces a depathologized approach that looks at eating disorders as clients' attempts to enact, restory, and resolve traumatic experiences they can't articulate. Through case studies, clients' journals, and artwork, we'll explore how bingeing, anorexia, and bulimia are actually dialogues born of unspeakable experiences. You'll learn about the metaphoric implications of each symptom: bingers build a shield for their bodies, anorectics communicate feelings of invisibility, bulimics try to rid themselves of the intolerable. You'll leave with specific, creative treatment strategies designed to help clients find their voices and develop alternative, safe ways to resolve trauma and rebuild their lives.

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