Are you are tired of the diet binge-diet cycle?
Do you hate your body and weight?
Are you tired of the scale determining whether you feel good or bad about yourself?
Are you feeling out of control with food?
Are decisions about the Atkins, South Beach, low fat, or Weight Watchers programs making you crazy?
Are you convinced that nothing works for you and it's time for weight loss surgery?
Free yourself from compulsive eating, finally, with the support and understanding of others struggling with the same problem. Food need not be your enemy or your constant companion. Make peace with food. Learn why it is the diets that have failed, not you.
Whether your child is an infant, toddler, pre-school age child, or is in middle-school, high school, or college, each stage of childhood presents challenges and dilemmas for all parents. Adolescence can be especially difficult for both children and parents, even more now than when we were kids because there is so much in today's youth culture to be concerned about. No matter how grown up they look or act, adolescents are neither children nor adults, but are that difficult stage in between of becoming adults, a work in process. It is a time when a little help can go a long way.
- When the Body Is the Target: Self-Harm, Pain, and Traumatic Attachments. 2000, 2002. Jason Aronson/Rowman & Littlefield.
- "Free Association Reconsidered: The Talking Cure, The Writing Cure." Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry. In press.
- "Weight Loss Surgery: A Magic Bullet? A Realistic Look at the Medical and Psychological Risks." 2003. Read article.
- "Ecstatic Stigmatics and Holy Anorexics, Medieval and Contemporary." Journal of Psychohistory, 31, 2, 182-204. Fall 2003. Read article.
- "The Body Speaks, The Body Weeps: Eating Disorders, Self-Mutilation, and Body Modifications." The Renfrew Perspective, Fall 1998.
- "Self-Medication, Traumatic Reenactment, and Somatic Expression in Bulimic and Self-mutilating Behavior." 1997. Clinical Social Work Journal, 25, 1, 87-106. Read article.
- A Response to "The Psychological Effect on the Child of Physical and Sexual Abuse" by Annaclare Van Dalen. 1991. Clinical Social Work Journal, 19, 1, Winter.
Consultation and supervision is available individually or in small groups. Consultation and in-service training is available for mental health facilities. When necessary, telephone consultation can be arranged.