Heather Thompson-Brenner, Ph.D. - Director, Eating Disorders Program
Research Assistant Professor
Dr. Thompson-Brenner received her Ph.D. in 2002 from University of Michigan. She conducted her internship training in the Harvard Medical School program at Cambridge Hospital, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in treatment and research for eating disorders at the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders. Dr. Thompson-Brenner's primary research interest is in the treatment of eating disorders, and she has special interests in the particular concerns of individuals from minority cultural groups and those with relationship and personality disorders. Dr. Thompson-Brenner received a Career Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health in 2005, and has three current grant-funded research projects underway studying integrative treatments for eating disorders.
Representative Publications
Thompson-Brenner, H., Eddy, K.T., Franko, D., Dorer, D., Vashchenko, M., Kass, A., & Herzog, D. (in press). Personality classification for eating disorders: A longitudinal study. Comprehensive Psychiatry.
Boisseau, C., Thompson-Brenner, H., Eddy, K.T., & Satir, D. (in press). Impulsivity in adolescent eating disorders. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.
Thompson-Brenner, H., Eddy, K.T., Satir, D., Boisseau, C.L., & Westen, D. (2008). Personality subtypes in adolescents with eating disorders: Validation of a classification approach. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 49(2), 170-80.
Thompson-Brenner, H., Eddy, K.T., Franko, D., Dorer, D., Vashchenko, M., & Herzog, D. (2008). Personality pathology and substance abuse in eating disorders: A longitudinal study. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 41(3), 203-208.
Eddy, K.T., Hennessey, M., & Thompson-Brenner, H. (2007). Eating pathology in East African women: The role of media exposure and globalization. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 195,196-202.
Eddy, K.T., Tanofsky-Kraff, M., Thompson-Brenner, H., Herzog, D.B., Brown, T.A., & Ludwig, D.S. (2007). Eating disorder pathology among overweight treatment-seeking youth: Clinical correlates and cross-sectional risk modeling. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45, 2360-71.
Thompson-Brenner, H., & Westen, D. (2005). A naturalistic study of psychotherapy for bulimia nervosa, Part 1: Comorbidity and therapeutic outcome. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 193(9):573-84.
Thompson-Brenner, H., & Westen, D. (2005). A naturalistic study of psychotherapy for bulimia nervosa, Part 2: Therapeutic interventions in the community. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 193(9):585-95.
Thompson-Brenner, H., & Westen, D. (2005). Personality subtypes in eating disorders: validation of a classification in a naturalistic sample. British Journal of Psychiatry, 186, 516-524.
Westen, D., Novotny, C.M., & Thompson-Brenner, H. (2004). The empirical status of empirically supported psychotherapies: Assumptions, findings, and reporting in controlled clinical trials. Psychological Bulletin, 130, 631-663
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