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Why Intensive Therapy?

People with eating disorders are experts at rationalizing or shutting down completely, so hour-long sessions, or even group sessions of two hours, a week are too short to let go of their obsessions. Sessions that last at least a few days per month, or even every three months.

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Who is bulimic ?

From young people who seems to have everything to mature adults, bulimia can afflict successful business people or celebrities, who claim to suffer from anorexia. In fact, they are purging, or using drugs to stay thin. Anorexia by itself happens to be rare after adolescence. Sometimes the symptoms are so bad that they keep people from going to school or work. All, however, are trapped in the same mental prison.

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Intensive and integrative

Two experts’ reactions.

Two esteemed psychotherapists offer their points of view on my original psychotherapeutic process aimed at helping people whose bulimia is hiding personality problems.
Catherine Hervais’ approach is based largely, but not only, on Gestalt therapy.
Serge Ginger
President of the European Commission for accreditation of psychotherapy training institutions
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Catherine Hervais’ style: confrontational, warm, and authentic.
Charles Gellman
Neuropsychiatrist, sexologist, Vice-president of the French Federation of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

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30 years of experience

My approach is inspired by the insight I have gained through my own experiences of trial and error in therapy. My long history of binging and purging ended only when I realized that bulimia is not just about binging or a lack of self control, but a coping mechanism for unbearable anxiety linked to a crisis of identity. My current work has shown that you need to detect the underlying causes of bulimia to treat it.

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In Practive

Those people who seem extroverted, and most of the time are socially successful, are often hiding an almost paralyzing set of issues deep below the surface. The interactions in group therapy allow the true self to emerge
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