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Ivan Eisler is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and medicine, with a notable emphasis on clinical psychology and psychiatry and mental health. The main topics of their work include eating disorders and behaviors, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, child nutrition and feeding issues, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, the impact of technology on adolescents, obesity, physical activity and diet, and psychotherapy techniques and applications.

The scientist has contributed to research published in the following venues:

  • Journal of Eating Disorders
  • European Eating Disorders Review
  • International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • The Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy
  • The Lancet Psychiatry

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Ivan Eisler include:

  • Multi-family therapy for eating disorders: A systematic scoping review of the quantitative and qualitative findings, 2021, International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Is this the 'new normal'? A mixed method investigation of young person, parent and clinician experience of online eating disorder treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021, Journal of Eating Disorders
  • From efficacy to effectiveness: child and adolescent eating disorder treatments in the real world (part 1)-treatment course and outcomes, 2022, Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Temperament-based treatment for young adults with eating disorders: acceptability and initial efficacy of an intensive, multi-family, parent-involved treatment, 2021, Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Improving programme-led and focused interventions for eating disorders: An experts' consensus statement-A UK perspective, 2023, European Eating Disorders Review

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ivan Eisler include:

  • Mima Simic
  • Julian Baudinet
  • Ulrike Schmidt
  • Anna Konstantellou
  • Peter Fonagy

Ivan Eisler has published extensively within their primary fields, contributing 73 publications related to psychology and 21 in medicine. Much of their work is concentrated in clinical psychology, which accounts for 70 publications, and extends into psychiatry and mental health with 14 publications. Their research addresses a range of psychological and behavioral topics, frequently exploring therapeutic approaches and psychosocial development among children and adolescents.

Best Publications

  • An Evaluation of Family Therapy in Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa

    Gerald F. M. Russell;George I. Szmukler;Christopher Dare;I. Eisler

  • Family therapy for adolescent anorexia nervosa: the results of a controlled comparison of two family interventions.

    Ivan Eisler;Christopher Dare;Matthew Hodes;Gerald Russell

  • Family and Individual Therapy in Anorexia Nervosa: A 5-Year Follow-up

    Ivan Eisler;Christopher Dare;Gerald F. M. Russell;George Szmukler

  • Psychological therapies for adults with anorexia nervosa: randomised controlled trial of out-patient treatments.

    Christopher Dare;Ivan Eisler;Gerald Russell;Janet Treasure

  • Anorexia nervosa: outcome and prognostic factors after 20 years.

    R. H. Ratnasuriya;I. Eisler;G. I. Szmukler;G. F. M. Russell

  • Evaluation of family treatments in adolescent anorexia nervosa: A pilot study

    Daniel Le Grange;Ivan Eisler;Christopher Dare;Gerald F. M. Russell

  • A Randomized Controlled Trial of Family Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy Guided Self-Care for Adolescents With Bulimia Nervosa and Related Disorders

    Ulrike Schmidt;Sally Lee;Jennifer Beecham;Sarah Perkins

  • The empirical and theoretical base of family therapy and multiple family day therapy for adolescent anorexia nervosa

    Ivan Eisler

  • Psychological interventions to improve glycaemic control in patients with type 1 diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.

    Kirsty Winkley;Sabine Landau;Ivan Eisler;Khalida Ismail

  • A randomised controlled treatment trial of two forms of family therapy in adolescent anorexia nervosa: a five-year follow-up.

    Ivan Eisler;Mima Simic;Gerald F.M. Russell;Christopher Dare

  • Anorexia Nervosa, Parental ‘Expressed Emotion’ and Dropping Out of Treatment

    George I. Szmukler;Ivan Eisler;G. F. Russell;C. Dare

  • Effects of Interventions Involving the Family in the Treatment of Adult Patients with Chronic Physical Diseases: A Meta-Analysis

    Mechthild Hartmann;Eva Bäzner;Beate Wild;Ivan Eisler

  • Impulsivity and eating disorders.

    Thomas Fahy;Ivan Eisler

  • Family criticism and self‐starvation: a study of expressed emotion

    Daniel le Grange;Ivan Eisler;Christopher Dare;Matthew Hodes

  • Family therapy for anorexia nervosa.

    Christopher Dare;Ivan Eisler

  • A multi‐family group day treatment programme for adolescent eating disorder

    Christopher Dare;Ivan Eisler

  • A pragmatic randomised multi-centre trial of multifamily and single family therapy for adolescent anorexia nervosa

    Ivan Eisler;Ivan Eisler;Mima Simic;John Hodsoll;Eia Asen;Eia Asen

  • Redefining the psychosomatic family: Family process of 26 eating disorder families

    Christopher Dare;Daniel Le Grange;Ivan Eisler;Joan Rutherford

  • The clinical and theoretical impact of a controlled trial of family therapy in anorexia nervosa.

    Christopher Dare;Ivan Eisler;Gerald F. M. Russell;George I. Szmukler

  • Family Interventions in Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa

    Daniel le Grange;Ivan Eisler;Ivan Eisler

Frequent Co-Authors

Janet Treasure
Janet Treasure King's College London
Ulrike Schmidt
Ulrike Schmidt King's College London
Daniel Le Grange
Daniel Le Grange University of California, San Francisco
Kate Tchanturia
Kate Tchanturia King's College London
Jonathan Green
Jonathan Green University of Manchester
Peter Fonagy
Peter Fonagy University College London
Ian M. Goodyer
Ian M. Goodyer University of Cambridge
Tamsin Ford
Tamsin Ford University of Cambridge
Iain C. Campbell
Iain C. Campbell King's College London
Helen Startup
Helen Startup Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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