ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD2019
Trauma-informed care and practice for eating disorders: personal and professional perspectives of lived experiences.
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- From shared mechanisms to treatment gaps: a review of the comorbidity between eating disorders and PTSD.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Review
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- "We went fishing in the dark": a case report highlighting one therapeutic process in an out-patient comorbid anorexia nervosa (AN) and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) treatment.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- A call for a trauma-informed approach during compulsory care for enduring anorexia nervosa with combined PTSD - an autoethnographic perspective.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Two identical twin pairs discordant for longstanding anorexia nervosa and OSFED: lived experience accounts of eating disorder and recovery processes.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Food and Trauma: Anthropologies of Memory and Postmemory.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2023Article
- A lived experience response to the proposed diagnosis of terminal anorexia nervosa: learning from iatrogenic harm, ambivalence and enduring hope.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- The integrated treatment of eating disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, and psychiatric comorbidity: a commentary on the evolution of principles and guidelines.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
- Adverse childhood experiences and binge-eating disorder in early adolescents.Journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
- Mechanisms by which adverse childhood experiences, other traumas and PTSD influence the health and well-being of individuals with eating disorders throughout the life span.Journal of eating disorders · 2022Review
- Separating the Signal from the Noise: How Psychiatric Diagnoses Can Help Discern Food Addiction from Dietary Restraint.Nutrients · 2020Review
- Sexual and gender minority individuals report higher rates of abuse and more severe eating disorder symptoms than cisgender heterosexual individuals at admission to eating disorder treatment.The International journal of eating disorders · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundLearning about the life stories of patients who have experienced a severe eating disorder (ED), but also traumas that led to PTSD, dissociative disorders, and other comorbidities, has great value to clinicians in their efforts to deliver trauma-informed care (TIC). Many investigators have been researching and writing about these issues for years, and strong scientific evidence has emerged, indicating that trauma is a significant risk factor for the development of EDs, particularly in its bulimic forms. PURPOSE: Peer-reviewed literature contains scarce input from people with "lived experiences". Hearing and "sitting with" such individuals are extremely useful in clinical practice and research. Further, encouraging patients to put words to their pain has recognized therapeutic effects. These lived experiences are often demonstrative of key elements of what professionals need to know about evaluating and treating patients with EDs and co-occurring trauma-related disorders. METHOD/
resultsThe principal author invited two courageous recovered ED advocates and writers (June Alexander and Jenni Schaefer), who have gone public about their ED-PTSD experiences, to recount their life stories and treatment experiences (both positive and negative). Dr. Brewerton then offers his professional perspectives on the course of their treatment experiences put in the context of ongoing relevant clinical research.
conclusionTheir and other patients' experiences have great power to guide professionals toward trauma-informed care, more integrated practice, and theoretically improved outcomes. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level V.
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