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Art Therapy and Eating Disorders is a step-by-step approach to a new and extremely promising technique for treating people with eating disorders -- children as well as adults, male and female sufferers alike -- that has proven to be a crucial aid to identification, prevention, and intervention. Mury Rabin demonstrates how her award-winning art therapy technique, known as Phenomenal and Nonphenomenal Body Image Tasks or "PNBIT," can be used by clinicians other than art therapists and shows its effectiveness in combination with diverse therapeutic techniques. Unlike traditional therapy programs that treat symptoms, this technique focuses on root causes and consists of a series of tasks -- some phenomenal: weight recording, mirror viewing, and body dimension estimates; others not: chromatic family line drawings and body image mandalas. The book includes five case studies that illustrate how the PNBIT technique functions in practice.
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Art Therapy and Eating Disorders Art Therapy and Eating Disorders The Self as Significant Form Mury Rabin Columbia University Press New York Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester, West Sussex Copyright © 2003 Mury Rabin All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rabin, Mury. Art therapy and eating disorders : the self as significant form / Mury Rabin. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-231-12768-5 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-231-12769-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Art therapy. 2. Eating disorders—Treatment. 3. Body image disturbance— Treatment. 4. Self. I. Title. RC489.A7 R33 2003 616.85′260651—dc21 ∞ Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. Printed in the United States of America c 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 p 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 2002034833 To the individuals who gave up their identity to become subjects in a courageous journey to find their Self CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi CHAPTER 1 Significance of Appropriate Body Image 1 CHAPTER 2 Body Image and the Self 11 CHAPTER 3 The Therapy of Art Therapy 22 CHAPTER 4 Phenomenal and Nonphenomenal Body Image Tasks in the Treatment of Eating Disorders and Other Addictions (PNBIT): The Method 27 CHAPTER 5 PNBIT Clinical Applications 43 CHAPTER 6 Conclusion 151 Afterwords: Toward an Ethical Society 160 APPENDIXES 1 Extracts of Exit Tape Recordings a. Jessica Mason b. Claudia Bernard c. Heather Allen d. Linda Miller 165 165 168 169 172 2 Self Report Form 179 3 Therapist Report Form 181 4 Sequence and Time Chart 183 5 Outline Drawing: Figure Selection, Male 185 Megan Brown’s recording is included in chapter 5. — vii — viii — Contents 6 Outline Drawing: Figure Selection, Female 186 7 Body Dimension Estimate and Measurement: Linear, Male 187 Body Dimension Estimate and Measurement: Circumference, Male 189 Body Dimension Estimate and Measurement: Linear, Female 191 Body Dimension Estimate and Measurement: Circumference, Female 193 11 Sandworlds Grid 195 12 Questionnaires 196 8 9 10 a. Eating Questionnaire b. Body Contour Drawing c1. Self Box Questionnaire c2. Comparison of Self Box 1 and Self Box 2 196 200 201 201 13