By Ira M. Sacker, MD, with Sheila Buff

 

The mysterious nature, onset, and lack of predictability of eating disorders make this an elusive epidemic that causes frustration and fear in those who are afflicted and those who love and treat them.

 

In Regaining Your Self, Dr. Sacker explains the phenomenon of the Eating Disorder Identity and describes why this is the least identified concept in traditional treatment methods, yet most detrimental aspect of the disorder.

 

Further, he explains how in an attempt to substitute their former identity, many eating disorder patients adopt their eating disorder as a more acceptable definition of who they are, thus blurring the lines between their disorder and their self. Like any thing that is viewed as intrinsic, the eating disorder becomes nearly impossible to cut off and turn away from.

 

To combat this crisis, Sacker lays out an effective program called PIRT or Personal Interaction Rational Therapy, which assists families, clinicians, medical doctors, and therapists in identifying the issue of identity (the lack of one, the disdain for the one they have) exhibited by patients and offers them techniques on replacing the eating disorder identity with a new and healthier one - the major component in facilitating recovery.

 

In addition, Dr. Sacker created a brand-new workbook section exclusively for this softcover edition, which offers both interactive and introspective exercises to help treatment professionals and patients successfully carry out the therapeutic approach described in this book.

 

240 pages. 5.5 x 8.5. Softcover. 2010.

 

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