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Radically open DBT: Targeting emotional loneliness in Anorexia Nervosa

Hempel, Roelie, Vanderbleek, Emily, Lynch, Thomas R.·2018·Eating Disorders

Abstract

This article conceptualizes Anorexia Nervosa (AN) as a prototypical overcontrolled disorder, characterized by low receptivity and openness, low flexible control, pervasive inhibited emotional expressiveness, low emotional awareness, and low social connectedness and intimacy with others. As a result, individuals with AN often report high levels of emotional loneliness. A new evidence-based treatment, Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO-DBT), and its underlying neuroregulatory theory, offer a novel way of understanding how self-starvation and social signaling deficits are used as maladaptive regulation strategies to reduce negative affect. RO-DBT proposes that rather than trying to be 'emotionally regulated' or achieving equanimity, long-term psychological well-being is achieved by increasing social connectedness. RO-DBT skills, including body posture, gestures, and facial expressions, activate brain regions that increase social safety responses that function to automatically enhance the open-minded and flexible social-signaling, which are crucial for establishing long-term intimate bonds with others and becoming part of a "tribe."

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Authors
Hempel, R., Vanderbleek, E., & Lynch, T. R.
Affiliations
  • University of Southampton (GB)
  • University of Notre Dame (US)
Corresponding author
Hempel, Roelie
Venue
Eating Disorders
Published
2018-01-02
Volume
26
Issue
1
Pages
92-104
ISSN
  • 1064-0266 (ISSN-L)
  • 1532-530X
OpenAlex
W2623141687
Cited by
97
References
54
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 43 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 1 · 2015: 1
FWCI
17.00
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Eating Disorders (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) (acceptedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Keywords
anorexia nervosa, emotional loneliness, social connectedness, social signaling, self-starvation, emotional awareness, flexible control
MeSH terms
Anorexia Nervosa, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Loneliness, Social Isolation, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Behavior Control

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