Art Therapy and Eating Disorders

Art Therapy and Eating Disorders

The Self as Significant Form

  • Author: Rabin, Mury
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • ISBN: 9780231127684
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780231507332
  • Place of publication:  New York , United States
  • Year of digital publication: 2003
  • Month: April
  • Language: English
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
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Significance of Appropriate Body Image
  • 2. Body Image and the Self
  • 3. The Therapy of Art Therapy
  • 4. Phenomenal and Nonphenomenal Body Image Tasks in the Treatment of Eating Disorders and Other Addictions (PNBIT): The Method
  • 5. PNBIT Clinical Applications
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Afterwords: Toward an Ethical Society
  • APPENDIXES
    • 1. Extracts of Exit Tape Recordings
      • a. Jessica Mason
      • b. Claudia Bernard
      • c. Heather Allen
      • d. Linda Miller
    • 2. Self Report
    • 3. Therapist Report
    • 4. Sequence and Time Chart
    • 5. Outline Drawings: Figure Selection, Male
    • 6. Outline Drawings: Figure Selection, Female
    • 7. Body Dimension Estimate and Measurements: Linear, Male
    • 8. Body Dimension Estimate and Measurement: Circumference, Male
    • 9. Body Dimension Estimate and Measurement: Linear, Female
    • 10. Body DImension Estimate and Measurement: Circumference, Female
    • 11. Sandworlds Grid
    • 12. Questionnaires
    • 13. Medical Release Form
    • 14. Medical Questionnaire
    • 15. Abstract from "The Yo-Yo in Art Therapy: The Use of Art Therapy in Eating Disorders"
    • 16. Art Therapy Images as an Index to Suicide
    • 17. Metropolitan Life Insurance Height and Weight Tables and Frame Size Estimate Chart (1983)
    • 18. Abstract from "Phenomenal and Nonphenomenal Body Image Tasks in the Treatment of Eating Disorders"
    • 19. The Scope of Art Therapy
    • 20. Relationship of Issues in Eating Disorders
    • 21. Figure Selection II
    • 22. Color Chart
    • 23. Tissue Box Estimate
  • References
  • Index

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