Samantha Carlucci, Livia Chyurlia, Michelle Presniak, Nancy Mcquaid, Stephanie Wiebe, Robert Hill, James C Wiley, Camille Garceau, Danielle Baldwin, Chloe Slowikowski, Iryna Ivanova, Renee Grenon, Louise Balfour, Giorgio A Tasca
We examined change in defensive functioning following group psychodynamic-interpersonal psychotherapy (GPIP) for binge-eating disorder (BED) compared to a waitlist control. We hypothesized that defensive functioning will improve to a greater extent at posttreatment for those in GPIP compared with those in a waitlist control condition. Participants were women with BED assigned to GPIP ( n = 131) or a waitlist control ( n = 44) condition in a quasi-experimental design. Those who received GPIP had significantly greater improvements in defensive functioning from pretreatment to six months posttreatment compared to the control group...
April 2022: International Journal of Group Psychotherapy