Well, I am officially the last one to jump on the “New Psychotherapy Has Potential to Treat Majority Of Cases Of Eating Disorders” article. I’ll admit, this journalist did a great job with his headline — not only did I read the article, but I went on to read up on CBT-E.
To quickly define CBT, Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Eating Disorders explains:
The strategy underpinning CBT-E is to construct a ‘formulation’ (or set of hypotheses) of the processes that are maintaining the patient’s psychopathology and use it to identify …

This question (turned argument) was posed the other night… Often when you sit down at a restaurant your waiter will come and sit a basket of bread (or tortilla chips if you’re at a Mexican restaurant) on the table–correct? Now, maybe you are recovering from bulimia and that basket of bread is really triggering. Is it disordered to say to the waiter, “No thanks, we don’t need the bread”?
Therapists response: Yes that is disordered because you should be able to have the bread on the table. If …

This could have been such a great article, had the question just been tweaked a little bit. (Therapy Watch: Diving In – How quickly should you open up in therapy?) Rather than “How quickly should you open up in therapy?” I think that “How quickly do you open up in therapy?” Or, since the article paneled all therapists…. “How quickly do your patients open up in therapy?”
I think that there are few “shoulds” in therapy (although I can think of a lot of should-nots!), but I am curious to …