Art Therapy and Eating Disorders: The Self as Significant Form

by Mury Rabin

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231127691
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	04/24/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Mury Rabin is a registered art therapist who has a private practice as a consultant on eating disorders. She received New York University's Phi Delta Kappa Award for her research on this technique, about which she has lectured widely.

Table of Contents

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 Clinical Applications
6 Conclusion
Afterwords
Appendixes
1. Extracts of Exit Tape Recordings
2. Self Report Form
3. Therapist Report Form
4. Sequence and Time Chart
5. Outline Drawing: Figure Selection, Male
6. Outline Drawing: Figure Selection, Female
7. Body Dimension Estimate and Measurement: 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. 1983 Metropolitan Life Insurance Height and Weight Tables and Frame Size Estimate Chart
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

What People are Saying About This

Noah Robbins

An important contribution to the growing literature on eating disorders. It offers healthcare providers a unique approach to managing this difficult problem.

— Noah Robbins, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Henry B. Hartman

This book will be an asset to all mental health professionals working with patients with eating disorders. It presents a new, innovative approach that can be used in conjunction with and easily integrated into other therapeutic modalities. The techniques are presented in a manner that is clear, and easy to understand and replicate.

— Henry B. Hartman, psychologist