Clients want to improve: This is one of several central treatment assumptions in DBT and not one that is widely accepted or believed in general
We know that eating disorders (EDs) are not choices, but is recovery a choice? I spend a lot of time thinking about this because
All eating disorders are characterized by an inability to properly feed oneself. Difficulties in eating, body image, and digestion are largely rooted in neurobiological and metabolic factors
When you restrict your eating in any way, your body adapts by entering starvation mode. Starvation mode is an evolutionary and biologically driven physiological mechanism
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is guided by a number of core assumptions about the nature of human behavior and about the process of treatment. Over the