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Welcome to the Website of Dr. Judith Brisman
Dr. Judith Brisman is an innovator in the field of eating disorders and body image. With over 25 years of experience, she has worked with hundreds of teenagers, preteens and adults who are troubled by weight, disordered eating or body hatred. She knows how to guide, challenge and motivate those concerned so that change in eating behaviors and body image can occur.
Dr. Brisman opened the first center in the country dedicated to the treatment of bulimia (Bulimia Treatment Associates, now the Eating Disorder Resource Center in New York City) and is the author of Surviving an Eating Disorder: Strategies for Family and Friends, the first book to help family and friends who know someone in trouble with food. She is known internationally for the treatment program she developed for eating disorders and is a frequent presenter to the media, the public and to academic audiences alike. Her work with patients is recognized both for her keen understanding of the intricate complications of eating issues and for her appreciation that treatment must be individualized for each person considering change.
In addition to her work with eating disorders, Dr. Brisman is a psychoanalyst, supervisor and instructor, trained at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis & Psychology in New York City. Informed by an Interpersonal perspective to psychological issues, Dr. Brisman helps to allow for meaningful and signficant changes in all aspects of her patients' lives. She works with individuals and couples to address relationship problems, difficulties in communication and symptomatic behaviors other than disordered eating.
Public Speaking
Dr. Brisman is known for being a compelling and engaging public speaker. She works directly and experientially with the lay audience, allowing for an immediate direction of change in eating behaviors. Her presentations are dynamic and often result in audience members shifting their own personal insights and behaviors.
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When Parents are Partners
Below are a sampling of articles from the blog When Parents are Partners. These blogs accompany the therapeutic program When Parents are Partners: A Unique Program for the Treatment of Eating Disorders.
February, 2011: "The Worst Fight Ever With Your Kids, Now What?"
Have any of you seen the movie Rachel is Getting Married (2008)? In its raw simplicity, it often is hauntingly on my mind. The movie reminds me of how relationships tumble along, how crisis can allow for growth. I often wonder how change occurs, how relationships evolve and get stronger...
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January, 2011: "The Hardest Thing I've Ever Done"
Once I was in the South Seas and panicked when I tried to go under water to scuba dive. This was a surprise because only the time before, I had easily submerged into shark infested black waters of the night and spent a week diving with predators just an arm's length away from me. This second time though, it took everything in me to calm my shaking body and literally force myself, push myself into the waters below....
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December, 2010: "Crisis as Opportunity: My New Year’s Resolution"
On May 20 of this year, my father, out of the blue, was diagnosed with a severely aggressive leukemia and was given two to six weeks to live. A quick run to Google (because that’s what we do these days when we’re scared) confirmed that the doctors weren’t being alarmists and that we really had to start saying goodbye now...
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November, 2010: "When - NOT IF - Parents are Partners"
Having just returned from Renfrew’s 20th Anniversary conference, I’m filled with good spirit and inspired thoughts having been surrounded by such a remarkably smart, challenging and creative group of colleagues...
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November, 2010: "Dear Jane, Your BMI is high!"
Parents have a lot to worry about these days. In that spirit, we’ve been paying attention to Michele Obama’s "Let’s Move" anti-obesity campaign which has gotten off to (dare I say) a running start. This program is vast, for the most part intelligent and multi-directional...
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