Publications on Eating Disorders

Fishman, H.C., Family Considerations in Liaison Psychiatry: A Structural Approach to Anorexia Nervosa in Adults. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Vol 2, No. 2. August 1982.

Fishman, H.C., Chapter 6 of Treating Eating Disorders, Edited by Joellen Werne, a volume in the Jossey-Bass Library of Current Clinical Technique, Dr. Irvin D.Yalom’s new series, The Jossey-Bass Library of Contemporary Technique, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995.

Charles Fishman’s latest book

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Enduring Change in Eating Disorders - Interventions with long-term results

This book presents the powerful and proven effective model of Intensive Structural Family Therapy and its application to the treatment of eating disorders.

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RSS NZ Eating Disorder Specialists weblog

  • General Systems Theory and Eating Disorders. January 27, 2012
    General systems theory refers to the inter-connectivity of all things. This theory developed in the middle part of the last century; it states that everything is connected. Cause and effect are a circle. Each effect causes another cause which causes another effect and so on. Think about that in regards to your own life. A […]
  • Taking Care of Your Healthcare January 19, 2012
    There has been an increasing movement over the last few years of patients and families taking more control of their own health. For so many years the responsibility of a person’s health has been given to the healthcare provider. As such, much healthcare is long after prevention. Opportunities for prevention are lost and what is […]
  • Two Week Challenge January 12, 2012
    Change is difficult for everybody. Trying to change long term behavioural patterns, such as eating disorders, can seem impossible. The Two Week Challenge can help. Over a two week period, using the worksheet on this website, track your eating disorder symptoms and what is happening in your life when these symptoms or thoughts occur. Find […]