The Radically Open DBT Workbook for Eating Disorders

From Overcontrol and Loneliness to Recovery and Connection

By: Karyn D. Hall PhD, Ellen Astrachan-Fletcher PhD, Mima Simic, Thomas R. MD Lynch PhD - foreword by

Narrated by: Sara Van Beckum

If you've been in therapy for an eating disorder, such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia, your past treatment may have focused on helping you control your emotions and contain your behaviors. However, research now shows that many people with eating disorders actually suffer from emotional overcontrol. This breakthrough workbook offers skills based in radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RO DBT), a proven-effective, transdiagnostic approach for treating disorders of overcontrol (OC).

You'll learn how to move beyond the unhealthy coping strategies that keep you feeling isolated and lonely, find tips for building a support network and enriching social connections, and develop your own plan for staying on the path to recovery. You'll also find assessments to help you determine the root cause of your OC disorder, exercises for increasing social engagement, and skills for improving social flexibility, trust, and intimacy.

Having an eating disorder can make you feel like you're alone. Even if you're in recovery, you may have days when feelings of isolation are too much, and you may feel tempted to fall back into unhealthy patterns. This workbook will help you build your own "treatment tribe," a group of people that help lift you up and support you as you find your way to a full recovery and a rich, meaningful life.

©2022 Karyn D. Hall, Ellen Astrachan-Fletcher, and Mima Simic (P)2024 Tantor

What about Marsha?

Unless I missed it, I see no credit to Marsha Linehan, Psychologists, founder, creator and architect of DBT. Other than that, love it. I have to slow the speaking rate of fill in the blanks part because writing DBT is part of the program for me. I have high hopes for this book. And benefit from DBT every day. Best skills to know. Thank you Marsha. And thank you authors for giving me hope I can recover from devastating eating disorder.

Good tips just hard to make yourself practice

I "read" this to supplement the RODBT class I got half thru before the fresh out of school therapist decided she wanted to work with children and not adults half way thru our class, abandoning us. I work in nutrition counseling and found this helpful for me and for clients and do find some points very helpful, especially the social signaling aspects since hard to make friends if you avoid due to routines or frown all the time due to feeling a high level of fight or flight most of the time.