Arts therapies and clients with eating disorders: Fragile board. Edited by Ditty Dokter. Jessica Kingsley Publishers: London. (1994) pp. 309 £ 19.95

✍ Scribed by Margaret Young

• Book ID: 102193725
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 128 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1072-4133
• DOI: 10.1002/erv.2400030409

✦ Synopsis

Psychodrama, Dance Movement Therapy and Music Therapy in the treatment of people with eating disorders. The book consists of 18 chapters, written by leading practitioners in the field, each addressing a different aspect of therapeutic practice. The book describes work in a variety of settings from specialist centre to community-based women's group. All work is illustrated by the use of individual case material or examples of groundwork practice.

and puts forward an hypothesis about why 'acting out' therapies may be useful for 'acting out' clients. This hypothesis is further developed in some of the individual chapters, particularly Chapter Eleven on the use of Art Therapy and Psychodrama by Mary Levens. It is noted that the practice of many of the arts therapists represented in the book is informed by object relations theory. An overall theme is that the symbolic communication inherent in all the arts therapies may be a bridge towards personal change and ultimately the use of more effective verbal communication.