15th Annual Renfrew Center conference - November 2005

The 15th Annual Renfrew Center conference, entitled 'Feminist Perspectives and Beyond: Enduring Wisdom, New Frontiers' will be held from November 10-13, 2005 at the Philadelphia Airport Marriott. The 2005 conference will address what is known and what is currently being discovered about eating disorders, aiming 'to re-examine our common wisdom, explore what is fresh and exciting and create a stimulating, collaborative context for the old and the new to nourish one another'. 

Workshops and poster presentations will address the following topics:
* risk/resiliency factors for eating disorders
* therapists' struggle and self-care
* temperament and its relationship to eating disorders
* eating disorders and midlife
* issues related to racial and ethnic diversity and sexual orientation
* evidence-based treatment for eating disorders
* healing the mind, body and spirit
* integration of science and practice
* eating disorders and co-morbidity
* traditional psychotherapeutic approaches
* a deeper look at feminist perspectives
* impact of family and peers; perspectives on compulsive eating, binge eating disorder and weight.

Keynote Presenters will include Carol Gilligan, PhD; Mike Devlin, MD; Joan Jacobs Brumberg, PhD and Craig Johnson, PhD.
Featured Speakers will include Ovidio Bermudez, MD; Joan Borysenko, PhD; Tim Brewerton, MD and Pamela Peeke, MD.

For more information, visit the Renfrew website at www.renfrew.org, or call Debbie Lucker at 1-877-367-3383.