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“It Takes a Village”: Concurrent Eating Disorder Treatment and the Multiperson Field

ABSTRACT Patients with eating disorders often rely on dissociation, cordoning off parts of the self that come to reside in disconnected mind and body states. In this paper, I explore the use of the multidisciplinary treatment team as a vehicle for accessing, engaging and linking the patient’s dissociated self-states as they emerge within different therapeutic dyads. While it is common for therapists who work with eating disorders to collaborate with other clinicians, the team has not typically been viewed as playing a role in the psychoanalytic process. Through a detailed case illustration, I demonstrate some of the ways that the treatment team can help to provide multiple perspectives on the same patient, generating a rich multiperson field that enhances and augments the psychoanalytic work. I also discuss challenges that can arise in concurrent therapy situations.