Today Dr Charles Fishman was interviewed by Dr Lisa C Palmer and Dr Jason Ross on the Renew your Life radio show.
Dr Palmer runs the Renew Centre of Florida where she offers treatment for eating disorders, addictions, trauma, marriage and family, stress and anxiety, and child & adolescent behavioural issues.
Dr Fishman discusses his upcoming book: ‘Family Matters‘.
NZ Eating Disorder Specialists has opened its private clinic in Auckland to help people and their families overcome eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. The clinic has 30 years of expertise and is the only clinic in New Zealand using the family therapy approach of Intensive Structural Therapy. (more…)
Adolescence is a strange wondrous stage, both for the young person as well as the family. No-one can deny that, just as a tadpole becomes a frog, there are biological changes in children in terms of physical and, somewhat slower, emotional maturity. The family, along with the peers and other social force help shape the emerging adult. Certain tips for parents can facilitate and make this voyage easier, in my experience. (more…)
I believe that one of the most useful assessment tools available to the family therapist is the concept of the homeostatic maintainer, the individuals or social forces that are maintaining a given problem and must therefore be included in the treatment.
The term homeostatic maintainer derives from the word homeostasis or same state. As used in biology or physiology, homeostatis refers to a process of maintaining sameness by restoring a system to a state from which it periodically departs. (more…)
Intensive Structural Family Therapy is an effective tool for transforming systemic issues of eating disorder sufferers. A major question for all successful treatment is how long will the positive changes be maintained. Will there be regression? (more…)
H. Charles Fishman, M. D., a general, child, and adolescent psychiatrist, has nearly 30 years of experience treating families, adolescents, and patients with eating disorders.
Check out Dr Fishman's weblog where he responds to questions from other professionals, consumers, and their families. He also comments on news items about eating disorders, adolescent and family therapy.
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.
Sitting in my office is a father of an adolescent girl who had severe anorexia. The anorexia had been compounded by the fact that the husband and wife were separated. The marriage fell apart when the husband announced that he had another woman and he was undecided where he wanted to go with his marriage. […]
Following from our previous blog, women using their best friends to vent their relationship problems to can be a form of conflict avoidance and can increase problems within the partnership. Women often tend to spend time with their girlfriends complaining about their partner. While this may let off steam and help the woman feel better […]
Describing her self as a “marshmallow,’” Cindy, a mother with a chronic eating disorder came to me with the complaint that she had no control over her four children. The more difficult they became, the more her eating problems worsened. This can be a common problem where people, for fear of hurting others or of […]
