Arts Therapies and Clients with Eating Disorders

'Fragile board'; arts therapies in the treatment of clients suffering from eating disorders, Ditty Dokter; 'Anger is red'; a user's account, Elise Warriner; Art Therapy; The picture as transactional object in the treatment of anorexia, Joy Schaverien; 'Bringing the man into the room'; art therapy groupwork with women with compulsive eating problems, Mary Jayne Rust; The mental double trap of the anorexic patient and the use of art therapy to facilitate psychic change, Paul Luzzatto; 'The power of food'; some explorations and transcultural experiences in relation to eating disorders, Dianna Waller; Dramatherapy - A Dramatherapy case history: an anorectic response to an incomplete 'rite of passage', Sue Jennings; Dramatherapy in short-term groupwork with women with bulimia, Maggie Young; The use of dramatherapy in the treatment of eating disorders: a developing Dutch method, Astrid Jacobse; Experimental training for staff working with eating disorders, Linda Winn; Psychodrama - Psychodrama with eating disordered patients. The use of concrete metaphors for the body, Mary Levens; The use of psychodrama in the field of bulimia, Sandra Jay; Dance Movement Therapy - A new way of working with body image in therapy, incorporating dance movement therapy methodology, Sally Totenbier; Eating distress, women and integrative movement psychotherapy, Helen Payne; Music Therapy; Music therapy and the individuation process in relation to child /adolescent early onset anorexia nervosa, Jacqueline Robarts; Individual music therapy with anorexic and bulimia patients, Ann Sloboda; Sexual abuse and eating disorders: a possible connection indicated through music therapy?, Penny Rogers; The development of symbolic function in a young woman with Down's syndrome, Margaret Heal.

The book includes illustrations and poems by Elise Warriner whose own experience with serious food problems led her to communicate her experiences through word and image. Much of her work is focused on trying to make people look at food in a different light. The book's illustrations include Table Setting shown on the cover, which illustrates the frustration of anorexics when faced with the necessity of eating. The table setting is made of liquidised paper and fruit skins. Fr those working within this field I would suggest that this book is a necessity.