Art Therapy and Eating Disorders : : The Self as Significant Form / / Mury Rabin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Rabin, Mury,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 47 illus.

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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 -- Afterwords: Toward an Ethical Society -- Appendix -- References -- Index