Psychomotor therapy and aggression regulation in eating disorders

Eating disorder behaviours can be seen as self-destructive behaviours to a greatextent related to inhibited anger expression. However, a treatment protocoltargeted at anger and aggression in these disorders is lacking. This paperdescribes a psychomotor therapy (PMT) model as a body-oriented method tohelp patients with eating disorders to cope with anger and aggression. They learnto see aggression as a positive, relational, body-felt experience, and to controlanger expression at the right time with appropriate intensity. Our clinicalexperience indicates that PMT can accelerate the overall treatment process bytriggering hidden feelings and thoughts and by developing expression skills.This article discusses PMT principles of aggression regulation and themethodological procedures of the intervention. Randomised controlled researchis needed to validate clinical experiences