Eating Disorders
People with eating disorders are preoccupied with food and/or their weight and body shape, and are usually highly dissatisifed with their appearance. The majority of eating disorders involve low self-esteem, shame, secrecy and denial.
Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are the major eating disorders. People with anorexia live at a low body weight, beyond the point of slimness and in an endless pursuit of thinness by restricting what they eat and sometimes compulsively over-exercising. In contrast, people with bulimia have intense cravings for food, secretively overeat and then purge to prevent weight gain (by vomiting or use of laxatives, for example).
Clinical Director
Mr. John Crimmins is a Trinity College trained Psychotherapist & is accredited with the Irish Association of Counseling & Therapy. John has extensive experience in the area of eating disorders. He has been seeing clients in his private practice at the Kildare Street Clinic since 1999. He has completed specialist training in Eating Disorder Treatment at the Maudsley Hospital Eating Disorder Unit in London.
He was Senior Manager in the Merchants Quay Drug Project for 10 years. John’s Post Graduate training is in ‘The Psychodynamics of Groups & Organisations’ . He has also trained in Group Dynamics with the A.K. Rice Institute, Washington, USA.
John has been involved in Group work for the past twelve years. He has consulted to teams in large organisations, managed multidisciplinary teams in clinical settings & facilitated a broad range of therapeutic Groupwork. He is presently running therapy groups for the treatment of Anorexia & Bulimia at the Kildare Street Clinic of which he is Director & Founder. He is also Director & Founder of the Addiction Training Institute.
