Telch C F
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305-5542, USA.
Int J Eat Disord. 1997 Jul;22(1):77-81. doi: 10.1002/(sici)1098-108x(199707)22:1<77::aid-eat10>3.0.co;2-f.
This case study describes a skills training treatment for binge eating which focused on teaching adaptive affect regulation. A 36-year-old obese woman with a long history of severe binge eating received individual treatment specifically aimed at enhancing her emotion regulation abilities. By treatment end she no longer met criteria for binge eating disorder.