Publications
“My Body, Your Body: Speaking the Unspoken between the Thin Therapist and the Eating-Disordered Patient”
August 2005
As therapists who work with eating-disordered patients, we have found that our bodies have an appreciable impact on the treatment. In this article, we discuss issues of transference–countertransference, disclosure, the use of the therapist’s self, including the body and the vicissitudes of the treatment. Patients use the therapist’s thin body in various ways: as evidence to support a number of distorted beliefs and assumptions; as a target of envy; as a container for projections and fantasies. We illustrate through case examples, the importance of including the therapist’s body in the therapeutic dialogue, so that it can be used as a tool, rather than a barrier to recovery.
The Renfrew Perspective:
A Professional Journal of
The Renfrew Center Foundation
Winter 2009
“The Nia Technique: Through Movement We Find Health”
Many years ago, I walked into my first Nia class. Filled with women of all ages, shapes and sizes, the room was soon vibrating, bodies twirling, wiggling, clapping and laughing. I knew immediately that this class was like no other I had ever experienced…