Areas of Interest

Eating disorders, personality disorders, treatment outcome, cultural issues in eating disorders, therapy integration

Representative Publications

1. Thompson-Brenner, H., Eddy, K.T., Satir, D., Boisseau, C.L., & Westen, D. (in press). Personality subtypes in adolescents with eating disorders: Validation of a classification approach. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

2. Thompson-Brenner, H., Eddy, K.T., Franko, D., Dorer, D., Vashchenko, M., & Herzog, D., (in press). Personality pathology and substance abuse in eating disorders: A longitudinal study. International Journal of Eating Disorders.

3. 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, Mar;195:196-202.

6. 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. Behavior Research and Therapy, Apr 6, Epub ahead of print.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.