Eating Disorders: What's Under the Surface?

Eating disorders are a current epidemic and often exasperate well meaning professionals. This presentation seeks to help clinicians understand the complex world of eating disorders. In the presentation, we will explore the dynamic and developmental factors of eating disorders, focusing on attachment relationships as they relate to the ability to know and regulate one’s feeling states. The goal is to develop therapeutic aims and skills in relation to this population as well as identify early risk factors in younger populations.

Perrin Elisha, Ph.D., is a psychologist and psychoanalytic candidate at the New Center for Psychoanalysis. She is a graduate of the Wright Institute of Los Angeles postdoctoral program and former staff member with the Susan B Krevoy Eating Disorders Program. She is also on the organizing and planning committee and teaching faculty of the Los Angeles Eating Disorders Study Center and Training Program. She maintains a private practice in West Los Angeles and her new book Body on the Couch, Psyche and Soma in Psychoanalysis will soon be released.