Inpatient psychotherapy with EMDR for patients with eating disorders

A trauma therapeutic concept for inpatient treatment of patients with eating disorders (anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa) will be presented. The therapeutic program is divided into four phases (stabilization, resource organization, exposition and reorientation). EMDR is integrated as standard protocol or modified for the purpose of resource organization into each of these therapy phases. The use of this trauma therapy concept of eating disorders has resulted in a substantial improvement in therapeutic results. The treatment results of 69 Patients with Bulimia and 61 patients with anorexia are presented.

Conference

English

Reinhard Plassmann

Plassmann, R. (2005, June). Inpatient psychotherapy with EMDR for patients with eating disorders. In EMDR and eating disorders. Symposium conducted at the 6th EMDR Europe Association Conference, Brussels, Belgium