Description: Many people with eating disorders also suffer from emotional overcontrol (OC). Based on more than twenty years of research, this breakthrough workbook offers skills grounded in radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RO DBT)--a proven-effective, transdiagnostic approach for treating OC disorders. With this workbook, readers will learn healthy coping skills, tips for building a solid support network and rich social connections, and strategies for staying on the path to recovery.
Brief description: Thomas R. Lynch, PhD, FBPsS, is professor emeritus of clinical psychology at the University of Southampton school of psychology. Previously, he was director of the Duke Cognitive-Behavioral Research and Treatment Program at Duke University from 1998-2007. He relocated to Exeter University in the UK in 2007. Lynch's primary research interests include understanding and developing novel treatments for mood and personality disorders using a translational line of inquiry that combines basic neurobiobehavioral science with the most recent technological advances in intervention research. He is founder of radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RO DBT).
Lynch has received numerous awards and special recognitions from organizations such as the National Institutes of Health-US (NIMH, NIDA), Medical Research Council-UK (MRC-EME), and the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD). His research has been recognized in the Science and Advances Section of the National Institutes of Health Congressional Justification Report; and he is a recipient of the John M. Rhoades Psychotherapy Research Endowment, and a Beck Institute Scholar.Review Quotes: "This book is such an important contribution! I've worked with countless people with eating disorders who have told me that radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RO DBT) is the treatment that resonates best for them. This book is the first of its kind to make RO DBT accessible to anyone. I can't wait to recommend this book to my own patients!"
--Leslie Anderson, PhD, FAED, associate clinical professor at the UC San Diego Eating Disorders Center, and coeditor of Clinical Handbook of Complex and Atypical Eating Disorders--Leslie Anderson, PhD, FAED