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Treating Eating Disorders

Ethical, Legal, and Personal Issues
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The treatment of eating disorders remains controversial, protracted, and often unsuccessful, and therapists face a number of impediments to the optimal care of their patients, such as transference, and difficulties in dealing with the patient's family. This volume discusses the pressure and responsibility faced by practising therapists in the treatment of eating disorders. Central themes are the legal, ethical and interpersonal issues involving compulsory treatment, food refusal and forced feeding, managed care, treatment facilities, terminal care, and how the sex of the therapist affects treatment.
Walter Vandereycken is Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology Institute, Catholic University of Louvain and Clinical Director, Centre for Behaviour Therapy, Alexanian Psychiatric Hospital, Tienen, Belgium. He is the co-author of From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls: The History of Self-Starvation. P. V. J. Beaumont is Professor of Psychiatry and Head of the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Sydney, Australia.
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