Edeology

Is an eating disorder the result of past trauma? When we see someone stuck in self-destructive and potentially life-threatening behaviors, it’s natural to ask what terrible event created this? Clinicians often debate the importance of addressing past trauma in eating disorder treatment, versus targeting present symptoms. Psychodynamic and embodied approaches typically emphasize past history and […]

In this episode, Dr. Marcia Nickow talks about anti-racism, DEI, and white privilege. Marcia shares how her upbringing as the child of Holocaust survivors influenced her interest in these topics. She discusses how she approaches racially charged issues in therapeutic contexts, including group therapy and clinician DEI groups. She also talks about what it is

So much of Western medicine has been tied up with body weight. Weight is often disproportionately and inaccurately associated with health. Weight loss is a common recommendation for many health conditions.  Although eating disorder treatment typically emphasizes body acceptance and weight neutrality, weight remains central to so many aspects of the treatment process. Body mass

In eating disorder treatment, do we focus on managing symptoms or addressing root causes? There are so many issues tied into this question, at both a theoretical and very practical level. Treatment focused on symptom management often rests on the premise that the issues encountered in eating disorder recovery are the result, not the cause,

How do you know? So many challenges to any particular position boil down to this question.  How do you know that what you’re saying is accurate? How do you know that the modality you’re using is effective?  In the medical and academic communities, we’re often taught that the only acceptable answer to this question is

In this episode, Elka Cubacub provides a framework for understanding the “what, why, and how” of dialogue in this podcast. To participate in dialogue, please complete the following interest form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScgWTg0mo532TUlfRBAawQ9uh9pmPr1O9IsKlFgBmO7NOji_g/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=107239699529464533283 Connect with Elka https://elkacubacub.com/  Elka’s book, Binge Eating Demystified https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD493WZ3

This is our first dialogue episode on the podcast. In it, we have Libby Supan, a therapist and certified intuitive eating counselor and David Wiss, a registered dietitian with a PhD in public Health. We’re coming together to talk about food addiction. I hesitated a lot before publishing this episode.  This was a difficult conversation

When I studied psychology, I learned about psychoanalysis as the id, ego, and superego, the mind depicted as an iceberg, with the subconscious submerged beneath the surface. We covered psychosexual development and the Oedipus complex. Some of it seemed relevant, and other parts seemed overly speculative. Mostly, though, it was presented as part of the

Perhaps the single most charged issue in eating disorder recovery is intentional weight loss. In the general population, we know based on research that the long-term success rates of intentional weight loss diets are abysmally low. In the world of eating disorder recovery, not only are the success rates low, but so many people have

Many traditional approaches to eating disorder treatment focus primarily on behaviors such as meal plan compliance, and strategies that aim to support and reinforce these behaviors.  In higher levels of care, and some outpatient settings, the goal is to make eating disorder behaviors non-negotiable. This may be accomplished through contingency management, where access to certain