Extension Division
Eating Disorders: “Thinking Outside the Box”
One Year Course: October 2009 – June 2010
Instructors:
The LAISPS year long course in eating disorders will explore the underlying issues and function of eating disorders, specifically anorexia nervosa and bulimia. The dilemma of making the unconscious conscious while attending to the often life threatening symptoms that accompany the eating disorder will be presented.
Each evening will consist of a theoretical class on eating disorders and a class on clinical technique. Over the thirty-week course, we will cover the major theories on the development of eating disorders, the medical risks and complications, the unconscious effort to control and cope with developmental trauma and some of the personality disorders in patients with eating disorders. We will incorporate techniques on how to work with the specific treatment issues of this population such as the patient’s resistance to treatment, transference and countertransference. Treating eating disorder patients with personality disorders will also be included.
The course includes an optional ten-week case conference with Dr. Susan Krevoy.
A certificate of completion will be awarded to participants upon their completion of thirty meetings.
Goals & Objectives:
- Identify the unconscious forces underlying eating disorders, specifically anorexia and bulimia.
- Understand how to utilize the “sturdy frame and flexible container” in the treatment of eating disorder patients.
- Understand the developmental traumas and conflicts from infancy through adolescence contributing to the development of eating disorders.
- Identify personality disorders in patients with eating disorders.
- Differentiate between borderline, narcissistic and schizoid personality disorders and how it impacts the eating disorder patient.
- Understand the perilous path and notable struggles of working with eating disorder patients.
- Learn to blend various treatment modalities into a psychoanalytic framework to provide the most effective treatment for eating disorders.
- Connect eating disorder symptoms to core problems in development and as a protection against re-living these traumatic experiences.
- Identify the social and cultural impacts on eating disorder patients.
Date: October 2009 – June 2010
Location: LAISPS Classroom
12011 San Vicente Blvd., #B3
Los Angeles, CA 90049
Fee: $ 1,000.00
75 CME/CEUs
