Dance therapy, sometimes called “movement therapy,” is a holistic approach to psychiatric disorders, incorporating an array of medical, psychological, social, and spiritual concerns. Dance therapy, with its unique emphasis on nonverbal communication in assessment and treatment, is an innovative therapeutic approach to address the needs of people with depression, anxiety disorders, and eating disorders. The […]
Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa
Winner of four major awards, Joan Jacobs Brumberg’s Fasting Girls, presents a history of women’s food-refusal dating back as far as the sixteenth century. Here is a tableau of female self-denial: medieval martyrs who used starvation to demonstrate religious devotion, “wonders of science” whose families capitalized on their ability to survive on flower petals and […]
Therapeutic Fasting
For those who can tolerate it, fasting may be the best means of detoxification. Fasting is drinking only water for an extended period of time. One of the oldest known medical treatments for cleansing the body, fasting is also used for healing a variety of ailments.35 Naturopaths are some of the most vigorous supporters of […]
Fasting in the Treatment of Food Addiction
There are several mechanisms that are intrinsic to fasting that make it potentially useful in the treatment of food addiction. For one, fasting has a detoxifying effect that may help clear the brain of neurochemical imbalances created from certain foods. Additionally, fasting has the potential to reframe the patient’s unhealthy attachment to food. Every human […]