Art therapy and eating disorders : the self as significant form / Mury Rabin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rabin, Mury.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art therapy.

Eating disorders--Treatment.

Eating disorders.

Body image disturbance--Treatment.

Body image disturbance.

Self.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Art Therapy and Eating Disorders is a step-by-step approach to a new and extremely promising technique for treating people with eating disorders-children as well as adults, male and female sufferers alike-that has proven to be a crucial aid to identification, prevention, and intervention. Mury Rabin demonstrates how her award-winning art therapy technique, known as Phenomenal and Nonphenomenal Body Image Tasks or "PNBIT," can be used by clinicians other than art therapists and shows its effectiveness in combination with diverse therapeutic techniques. Unlike traditional therapy programs that treat symptoms, this technique focuses on root causes and consists of a series of tasks-some phenomenal: weight recording, mirror viewing, and body dimension estimates; others not: chromatic family line drawings and body image mandalas. The book includes five case studies that illustrate how the PNBIT technique functions in practice.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Significance of Appropriate Body Image

Chapter 2. Body Image and the Self

Chapter 3. The Therapy of Art Therapy

Chapter 4. Phenomenal and Nonphenomenal Body Image Tasks in the Treatment of Eating Disorders and Other Addictions (Pnbit): The Method

Chapter 5. Pnbit Clinical Applications

Chapter 6. Conclusion

After words: Toward an Ethical Society

Appendix

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-224) and index.

ISBN:

9781322353296

1322353298

9780231507332

023150733X

OCLC:

614994668