Ivan Eisler
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- PhD Psychology University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ivan Eisler OBE is a British psychologist and Professor in the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London. Eisler is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and was a recipient of 2016 Birthday Honours for his services to family therapy.
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Published Works
- An evaluation of family therapy in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. (1987) (816)
- Family and individual therapy in anorexia nervosa. A 5-year follow-up. (1997) (509)
- Family therapy for adolescent anorexia nervosa: the results of a controlled comparison of two family interventions. (2000) (509)
- Psychological therapies for adults with anorexia nervosa (2001) (377)
- Anorexia Nervosa: Outcome and Prognostic Factors after 20 Years (1991) (358)
- Psychological interventions to improve glycaemic control in patients with type 1 diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (2006) (358)
- Evaluation of family treatments in adolescent anorexia nervosa: A pilot study (1992) (303)
- A randomised controlled treatment trial of two forms of family therapy in adolescent anorexia nervosa: a five-year follow-up. (2007) (282)
- A randomized controlled trial of family therapy and cognitive behavior therapy guided self-care for adolescents with bulimia nervosa and related disorders. (2009) (278)
- The empirical and theoretical base of family therapy and multiple family day therapy for adolescent anorexia nervosa (2005) (261)
- Anorexia Nervosa, Parental ‘Expressed Emotion’ and Dropping Out of Treatment (1985) (230)
- Effects of Interventions Involving the Family in the Treatment of Adult Patients with Chronic Physical Diseases: A Meta-Analysis (2010) (219)
- Impulsivity and Eating Disorders (1993) (184)
- Family criticism and self‐starvation: a study of expressed emotion (1992) (147)
- The clinical and theoretical impact of a controlled trial of family therapy in anorexia nervosa. (1990) (129)
- A multi‐family group day treatment programme for adolescent eating disorder (2000) (122)
- Using the Autism-Spectrum Quotient to Measure Autistic Traits in Anorexia Nervosa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2015) (121)
- A pragmatic randomised multi-centre trial of multifamily and single family therapy for adolescent anorexia nervosa (2016) (111)
- Redefining the psychosomatic family: family process of 26 eating disorder families. (1994) (108)
- Family interventions in adolescent anorexia nervosa. (2009) (104)
- A randomized controlled trial of an Internet-based cognitive-behavioural skills package for carers of people with anorexia nervosa (2011) (103)
- Attachment and mentalization and their association with child and adolescent eating pathology: A systematic review. (2016) (99)
- A Randomized Controlled Trial of Adjunctive Family Therapy and Treatment as Usual Following Inpatient Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa Adolescents (2012) (95)
- Mothers with anorexia nervosa who underfeed their children: their recognition and management (1998) (94)
- Cognitive-behavioural therapy for adolescents with bulimic symptomatology: the acceptability and effectiveness of internet-based delivery. (2009) (92)
- Theoretical and empirical models around caring for someone with an eating disorder: The reorganization of family life and inter-personal maintenance factors (2005) (87)
- Predictors of mental health problems and negative caregiving experiences in carers of adolescents with bulimia nervosa. (2007) (78)
- The implications of anorexia nervosa in a ballet school. (1985) (77)
- Family Therapy for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders: A Critical Review. (2016) (77)
- Disruption and reconstruction: narrative insights into the experience of family members caring for a relative diagnosed with serious mental illness. (1999) (76)
- Family therapy for bulimia nervosa in adolescents: an exploratory study (1995) (76)
- Evaluation of a cognitive remediation therapy group for adolescents with anorexia nervosa: pilot study. (2012) (72)
- Do adolescents with eating disorder not otherwise specified or full-syndrome bulimia nervosa differ in clinical severity, comorbidity, risk factors, treatment outcome or cost? (2008) (72)
- Comparison of specialist and nonspecialist care pathways for adolescents with anorexia nervosa and related eating disorders. (2012) (67)
- Effectiveness of systemic family therapy versus treatment as usual for young people after self-harm: a pragmatic, phase 3, multicentre, randomised controlled trial (2018) (66)
- Social class as a confounding variable in the Eating Attitudes Test. (1985) (65)
- Randomised controlled trial of CD–ROM-based cognitive–behavioural self-care for bulimia nervosa (2008) (63)
- Systematic literature review and meta-analysis of the relationship between adherence, competence and outcome in psychotherapy for children and adolescents (2019) (62)
- Temperament-based treatment for anorexia nervosa. (2015) (62)
- Attachment measures in middle childhood and adolescence: A systematic review of measurement properties. (2019) (61)
- Expressed Emotion in Individual and Family Settings: a Comparative Study (1987) (55)
- Multisystemic therapy versus management as usual in the treatment of adolescent antisocial behaviour (START): a pragmatic, randomised controlled, superiority trial. (2018) (55)
- Personality Disorder and Treatment Response in Bulimia Nervosa (1993) (54)
- The listening heart and the chi square: clinical and empirical perceptions in the family therapy of anorexia nervosa (1995) (53)
- The Effects on Mood of Adjunctive Single-Family and Multi-Family Group Therapy in the Treatment of Hospitalized Patients with Major Depression (2009) (52)
- Impact of ASD Traits on Treatment Outcomes of Eating Disorders in Girls (2017) (51)
- A Placebo-Controlled Trial of d-Fenfluramine in Bulimia Nervosa (1993) (49)
- Incomplete adherence after pediatric heart and heart-lung transplantation. (1998) (46)
- Short-term intensive family therapy for adolescent eating disorders: 30-month outcome. (2015) (46)
- A controlled trial of d-fenfluramine in bulimia nervosa. (1988) (45)
- An off-line pilot evaluation of a web-based systemic cognitive-behavioral intervention for carers of people with anorexia nervosa. (2011) (43)
- Focus on anorexia nervosa: modern psychological treatment and guidelines for the adolescent patient (2015) (41)
- Intensive multi-family therapy for adolescent anorexia nervosa: Adolescents' and parents' day-to-day experiences (2015) (37)
- Diagnosing eating disorders in adolescents: a comparison of the eating disorder examination and the development and well-being assessment. (2008) (36)
- Developing an intervention to facilitate family communication about inherited genetic conditions, and training genetic counsellors in its delivery (2015) (36)
- The link between anorexia nervosa and excessive exercise: A review (1993) (36)
- Testing a cognitive model of generalized anxiety disorder in the eating disorders. (2011) (35)
- Why do adolescents with bulimia nervosa choose not to involve their parents in treatment? (2005) (34)
- Marital satisfaction, conflict communication, attachment style and psychological distress in couples with a hospitalized depressed patient (2007) (34)
- Self-Harm Intervention: Family Therapy (SHIFT), a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of family therapy versus treatment as usual for young people seen after a second or subsequent episode of self-harm (2015) (30)
- Development of a children's version of the SCORE Index of Family Function and Change. (2013) (30)
- Family discussion group therapy for major depression: a brief systemic multi-family group intervention for hospitalized patients and their family members (2007) (30)
- Risk factors, correlates, and markers in early-onset bulimia nervosa and EDNOS. (2011) (30)
- Care experiences of young people with eating disorders and their parents: qualitative study (2019) (29)
- A comparative study of family therapy in the treatment of opiate users in a London drug clinic (2002) (27)
- Beneficial factors in family discussion groups of a psychiatric day clinic: perceptions by the therapeutic team and the families of the therapeutic process (2003) (27)
- Incidence of anorexia nervosa in young people in the UK and Ireland: a national surveillance study (2019) (25)
- The acceptability, feasibility, and possible benefits of a neurobiologically‐informed 5‐day multifamily treatment for adults with anorexia nervosa (2018) (25)
- Intensive multi‐family therapy for adolescent anorexia nervosa: an open study of 30 families (2015) (25)
- Therapeutic processes in multi-family groups for major depression: results of an interpretative phenomenological study. (2011) (24)
- The heart of the matter – a conversation across continents (2006) (24)
- Evaluation of multisystemic therapy pilot services in the Systemic Therapy for At Risk Teens (START) trial: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (2013) (24)
- The assessment of expressed emotion in a standardised family interview. (1999) (24)
- Multi-Family Therapy for Bulimia Nervosa in Adolescence (2015) (23)
- Therapeutic factors in a systemic multi-family group treatment for major depression: patients' and partners' perspectives (2009) (22)
- A Brief, Intensive Application of Multi-Family-Based Treatment for Eating Disorders (2015) (22)
- Is this the ‘new normal’? A mixed method investigation of young person, parent and clinician experience of online eating disorder treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021) (22)
- Family-based treatments for adolescents with anorexia nervosa: single-family and multifamily approaches. (2010) (22)
- Systematic observation and clinical insight – are they compatible? An experiment in recognizing family interactions (1985) (22)
- Intensive treatment program (ITP): A case series service evaluation of the effectiveness of day patient treatment for adolescents with a restrictive eating disorder (2018) (22)
- Family Discussion Groups for Patients with Chronic Pain: A Pilot Study (2005) (21)
- The effect of multiple family therapy on weight gain in adolescents with anorexia nervosa: pilot data. (2014) (20)
- Treatment of anorexia nervosa: a multimethod investigation translating experimental neuroscience into clinical practice (2017) (18)
- Helpful events in family discussion groups with chronic-pain patients: a qualitative study of differences in perception between therapists/observers and patients/family members (2003) (17)
- Changes in General and Specific Psychopathology Factors Over a Psychosocial Intervention. (2019) (17)
- What's new is old and what's old is new: The origins and evolution of eating disorders family therapy (2015) (17)
- WHAT'S HAPPENED TO FAMILY INTERACTION RESEARCH? AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT AND A FAMILY SYSTEMS VIEWPOINT (1988) (17)
- Training Genetic Counsellors to Deliver an Innovative Therapeutic Intervention: their Views and Experience of Facilitating Multi-Family Discussion Groups (2016) (15)
- The eating disorder inventory as an instrument to explore change in adolescents in family therapy for anorexia nervosa (2000) (15)
- Family therapy for adolescent anorexia nervosa (2015) (14)
- "You" and "I," "us " and them: a systemic-discursive approach to the study of ethnic stereotypes in the context of British-Greek heterosexual couple relationships. (2007) (13)
- Treatment models, brand names, acronyms and evidence‐based practice (2007) (13)
- The Scientific Practitioner and Family Therapy: A way Forward, a Strait‐jacket or a Distraction? (2002) (13)
- Motivation to change in recent onset and long-standing bulimia nervosa: Are there differences? (2007) (13)
- The Self- and Other-Blame Scale (SOBS). The background and presentation of a new instrument for measuring blame in families (2001) (13)
- Family Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa in Adolescence: A Review (1991) (12)
- Family and Multifamily Therapy (2012) (12)
- What is multi-family therapy? (2021) (11)
- A pragmatic randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation of family therapy versus treatment as usual for young people seen after second or subsequent episodes of self-harm: the Self-Harm Intervention - Family Therapy (SHIFT) trial. (2018) (11)
- Treating Adolescents with Eating Disorders (2015) (10)
- Multi-family therapy for bulimia nervosa in adolescence: a pilot study in a community eating disorder service (2019) (10)
- Alternative community-based models of care for young people with anorexia nervosa: the CostED national surveillance study (2019) (10)
- Multi-Family Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa (2021) (10)
- Family Interviewing and Family Therapy (2009) (10)
- The experience of intolerance of uncertainty for young people with a restrictive eating disorder: a pilot study (2019) (10)
- Multi‐family therapy for eating disorders: A systematic scoping review of the quantitative and qualitative findings (2021) (9)
- Multisystemic therapy versus management as usual in the treatment of adolescent antisocial behaviour (START): 5-year follow-up of a pragmatic, randomised, controlled, superiority trial. (2020) (8)
- Outcome and Prognostic Factors after 20 Years of Anorexia Nervosa (1989) (8)
- Attachment and mentalization as predictors of outcome in family therapy for adolescent anorexia nervosa (2020) (8)
- Family therapy for adolescent eating disorders: a special form of therapy or family therapy with a specific focus? (2013) (8)
- Longer-term effectiveness of systemic family therapy compared with treatment as usual for young people after self-harm: An extended follow up of pragmatic randomised controlled trial (2020) (7)
- Multifamily therapy for adolescent anorexia nervosa. (2011) (7)
- Editorial: Living in several professional languages (2004) (6)
- Meta‐analysis: Magic wand or exploratory tool? Comment on Markus et al. (1990) (5)
- Temperament-based treatment for young adults with eating disorders: acceptability and initial efficacy of an intensive, multi-family, parent-involved treatment (2021) (5)
- From efficacy to effectiveness: child and adolescent eating disorder treatments in the real world (part 1)—treatment course and outcomes (2022) (5)
- From efficacy to effectiveness: child and adolescent eating disorder treatments in the real world (Part 2): 7-year follow-up (2022) (4)
- Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of systemic family therapy compared with treatment as usual for young people after self-harm: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial (2018) (4)
- Radically open dialectical behaviour therapy adapted for adolescents: a case series (2021) (4)
- The experience of intolerance of uncertainty for parents of young people with a restrictive eating disorder (2021) (4)
- Multisystemic Therapy versus management as usual in the treatment of adolescent antisocial behaviour (START): a randomised controlled pragmatic effectiveness superiority trial (2017) (4)
- Maudsley Family Therapy for Eating Disorders (2019) (3)
- Strengthening the Voice of Family Therapy (2008) (3)
- Why talking (and listening) is better than trying to build bridges (2003) (3)
- Family-based treatment increases full remission at 1-year follow-up compared with adolescent-focused individual therapy in adolescents with anorexia nervosa (2011) (3)
- Anorexia Nervosa and the Family (2010) (2)
- You can't teach an old dog new tricks: Teaching research to family therapy trainees. (1992) (2)
- Multisystemic therapy compared with management as usual for adolescents at risk of offending: the START II RCT (2020) (2)
- Eating Disorders in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults (2020) (2)
- Formulation in eating disorder focused family therapy: why, when and how? (2021) (2)
- A Measure of Patient's Response Style To Therapist and Therapy: the Development of the Patient Response Style Scales (prss) (1996) (2)
- Long-term follow-up of a randomized controlled trial comparing systemic family therapy (FT-S) added to treatment as usual (TAU) with TAU alone in adolescents with anorexia nervosa. (2022) (1)
- The Cost-Effectiveness of models of care for young people with Eating Disorders (2019) (1)
- Parent and Youth Perspectives and Retention in Functional Family Therapy. (2020) (1)
- A randomised controlled multicentre trial comparing the Maudsley Model of Anorexia Nervosa Treatment for Adults with specialist supportive clinical management in outpatients with broad anorexia nervosa (work package 2a) (2017) (1)
- Implementing service transformation for children and adolescents with eating disorders across England: the theory, politics, and pragmatics of large-scale service reform (2022) (1)
- Brief early adolescent multi-family therapy (BEAM) trial for anorexia nervosa: a feasibility randomized controlled trial protocol (2021) (1)
- Family Expressed Emotion in Eating Disordered Patients (1996) (1)
- From Treatment Models to Manuals: Maudsley Single- and Multi-Family Therapy for Adolescent Eating Disorders (2021) (1)
- Current treatment of Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia: P.S. Powers and R.C. Fernandez (eds): Karger, Basel (1984). xiv + 347 pages. $58.75. (1986) (1)
- Beneath the Surface of Expressed Emotion (EE) (2020) (1)
- Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa: Translating Experimental Neuroscience into Clinical Practice (2017) (1)
- A rose by any other name (2005) (1)
- Using the Autism-Spectrum Quotient to Measure Autistic Traits in Anorexia Nervosa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2015) (0)
- MFT meals (2021) (0)
- Body image in the classroom: developing and testing a teacher-delivered eating disorder prevention programme using a clustered randomised controlled trial (work package 1b) (2017) (0)
- MFT context and mechanisms of change (2021) (0)
- Cost-effectiveness of specialist eating disorders services for children and adolescents with anorexia nervosa: a national surveillance study (2021) (0)
- From efficacy to effectiveness: child and adolescent eating disorder treatments in the real world (part 1)—treatment course and outcomes (2022) (0)
- Aspects of family therapy (1992) (0)
- Editorial: Moving with the times (2006) (0)
- Systemic Family Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa (sftan): Theoretical Concepts, Practical Application, Obstacles and Challenges: Training Track 1.3: Therapies (2014) (0)
- Effect of maternal eating disorders on mother‐infant quality of interaction, bonding and child temperament: A longitudinal study (2022) (0)
- Title Temperament-based treatment for anorexia nervosa Permalink (2014) (0)
- Attachment in individuals with eating disorders compared to community controls: A systematic review and meta-analysis. (2023) (0)
- Brief early adolescent multi-family therapy (BEAM) trial for anorexia nervosa: a feasibility randomized controlled trial protocol (2021) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Inpatient cognitive behaviour therapy for anorexia nervosa: a randomized controlled trial. (2014) (0)
- Therapeutic techniques (2021) (0)
- Is this the ‘new normal’? A mixed method investigation of young person, parent and clinician experience of online eating disorder treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021) (0)
- Four-day intensive workshop: the activities (2021) (0)
- Temperament-based treatment for young adults with eating disorders: acceptability and initial efficacy of an intensive, multi-family, parent-involved treatment (2021) (0)
- THE IMPLICATIONS OF ANOREXIA NERVOSA IN A BALLET SCHOOL (1986) (0)
- The MFT treating team (2021) (0)
- A tribute to Bryan Lask the family therapist (2016) (0)
- Pathways to family myths: V. Pillari: Brunner/Mazel, New York (1986). Pages xviii + 188. $31.00. (1988) (0)
- Managing process and group facilitation (2021) (0)
- Failures in family therapy: S.B. Coleman (ed.): Guilford Press, New York (1985). xv + 389 pages. £27.50 (1987) (0)
- From efficacy to effectiveness: child and adolescent eating disorder treatments in the real world (Part 2): 7-year follow-up (2022) (0)
- MFT-AN structure and content (2021) (0)
- Who can benefit from MFT-AN? (2021) (0)
- Title: Changes in General and Specific Psychopathology Factors Over A Psychosocial Intervention Running title: Psychopathology Factors in Psychotherapy Author names and affiliations: (2019) (0)
- Formulation in eating disorder focused family therapy: why, when and how? (2021) (0)
- Applications of systemic family therapy: the Milan approach: D. Campbell and R. Draper (eds): Grune & Stratton, London (1985). Pages xxvii + 293. £25.00. (1986) (0)
- How to use activities in MFT-AN (2021) (0)
- MFT troubleshooting and managing risk (2021) (0)
- SOCIAL CLASS AS A CONFOUNDING VARIABLE IN THE EATING ATTITUDES TEST (1986) (0)
- Silent witnesses: the experience of having a sibling with anorexia nervosa (2022) (0)
- Cost-effectiveness of specialist eating disorders services for children and adolescents with anorexia nervosa: a national surveillance study (2021) (0)
- Effectively managing and containing the group process (2021) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of A systematic review of evidence for psychological treatments in eating disorders: 2005-2012. (2013) (0)
- Family Interv entions in Adolescent Anorexia Nerv osa (2008) (0)
- Follow-up days and exercises (2021) (0)
- Silent witnesses: the experience of having a sibling with anorexia nervosa (2022) (0)
- Family kaleidoscope: Images of violence and healing: S. Minuchin: Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, Mass. (1984). xi + 246 pages. £13.20 (1985) (0)
- Relationship between Personality Disorders and Eating Disorders (1996) (0)
- Basic family therapy: P. Barker: 2nd Edn., Collins, London (1986). xviii + 334 pages. £4.95. (1988) (0)
- Treating Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents (2015) (0)
- Family therapy and the head of Janus (2008) (0)
- The Self and Other-blame Scales (sobs) (1996) (0)
- Using video: Psychological and social applications: P.W. Dowrick and S.J. Biggs (eds): Wiley, Chichester, England (1983). xv + 238 pages. £14.00 (1985) (0)
- MFT-AN theoretical concepts (2021) (0)
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