Long-term psychodynamic group psychotherapy for eating disorders: A descriptive case report

Abstract

Fifteen women with long-standing histories of eating and other disordered behavior participated in a psychodynamically oriented psychotherapy group over a 3-year period. This article provides a number of observations on this group and describes how a variety of organizational. patient, therapist, and treatment variables combined to help as well as hinder favorable outcome in group members. The implications of these findings for assessment, preparation, selection, and intervention are discussed, and recommendations are offered for working with more recalcitrant eating disordered people in pup in the future.