Dr. James Greenblatt, Former Chief Medical Officer, Monte Nido Walden
As the former Chief Medical Officer for Monte Nido Walden, Dr. James M. Greenblatt provided medical management, leadership, and oversight of Walden’s eating disorder programs. Working with thousands of children, adolescents and adults, Dr. Greenblatt found that each individual has a unique biochemical profile, range of behaviors and treatment needs. He has since retired from his position at Monte Nido Walden.
Dr. Greenblatt is board-certified in child and adult psychiatry. He received his medical degree and completed his adult psychiatry residency at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He completed a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School. In addition, Dr. Greenblatt is a clinical faculty member in the psychiatry department at Tufts Medical School. He lectures extensively throughout the United States and Canada on integrative therapies for mental health.
He is the author of several books, including: “Answers to Anorexia,” which draws on his many years of experience and expertise in integrative medicine and treating eating disorders, “The Breakthrough Depression Solution,” which outlines a personalized nine-step method for beating the physical causes of depression; “Answers to Binge Eating,” which confronts a mistaken understanding of why people struggle with weight management and introduces biological solutions for rebalancing appetite and eating patterns; and “FINALLY FOCUSED,” which helps parents understand and eliminate the risk factors around their child’s ADHD symptoms.
Books By Dr. James Greenblatt
FINALLY FOCUSED
ADHD – a disorder affecting 7 million American children and 8 million adults – is not a “behavior” or “discipline” problem, but a medical disorder in which nutritional, neurological, genetic and other factors imbalance the brain, causing imbalanced behavior. To restore balance, every person with ADHD requires unique natural and medical treatments.
FINALLY FOCUSED provides those treatments. Each chapter is organized as a step-by-step healing plan, in which Greenblatt first helps parents understand the factors underlying their child’s ADHD symptoms – and then shows them how to eliminate those factors, one by one. (Adults with ADHD can do the same on their own.) If medication is necessary, the Plus-Minus Healing Plan can minimize or even eliminate side effects.
Answers To Binge Eating
In Answers to Binge Eating, respected psychiatrist and eating disorder expert Dr. James Greenblatt explains how appetite is controlled by the brain’s neurochemical systems, which rely on specific proteins for optimal functioning.
The New Hope model described in this book combines the best in traditional and complementary approaches for recovery from appetite disturbances, food addiction, and binge eating. While dieting providers a temporary fix, this book will offer a permanent solution based on scientific research to help you reclaim a healthy appetite with food.
Following the New Hope model, you will find your answers to appetite control and get off the roller-coaster ride of food addiction.
The Breakthrough Depression Solution
The Breakthrough Depression Solution offers patients and their families’ new hope for sustained recovery from depression.
Depression, a disabling illness that threatens to become the major cause of disability worldwide by the year 2020, is surprisingly common, affecting over 15 million individuals in the United States alone. But the statistics regarding recovery are dismal. Standard treatment for depression successfully eliminates symptoms in only 33% of patients, and in roughly 70% of those with depression, it recurs.
In The Breakthrough Depression Solution, Dr. Greenblatt offers a new approach to this devastating and debilitating illness grounded in personalized medicine. The fundamental premise of this approach focuses on medicine tailored to each individual. Just as personality and appearance is unique, so are the factors that contribute to depression. Focusing on personalized medicine, Dr. Greenblatt concentrates on nutrition, genetics, stress, and when needed, technology to ensure that medications and treatment are targeted towards individual biochemistry. By identifying and addressing all the factors that contribute to depression, depression can be successfully treated!
Answers to Anorexia
Answers to Anorexia offers patients and families new hope for the successful treatment of this serious, frustrating, and enigmatic illness. It proposes the first new treatment plan for anorexia in fifty years.
Anorexia is a medical illness of starvation that causes malnutrition in the body and the brain. This self-starvation disease affects approximately 1-5% of young women in the U.S., (and is increasingly common among middle-aged women as well as men).
While psychiatry treats major psychiatric illness with medications – not one drug is FDA-approved to treat anorexia! Antidepressants are commonly prescribed, but have been proven ineffective for treating anorexia. Answers to Anorexia addresses the challenge of successful treatment by providing an integrative medicine approach to this devastating illness.
Answers to Anorexia offers readers highly accessible information that may be helpful as either self-help or as an adjunct to professional treatment. It provides a holistic treatment plan involving an integrative medicine approach for men and women with anorexia. The treatment plan centers on restorative nutrition and precise medication for the many symptoms and illnesses that often accompany this life-threatening disease such as depression and anxiety. To be successful, Dr. Greenblatt explains, treatment needs to correct the physical damage and brain dysfunction of malnutrition.
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Blog Posts by Dr. James Greenblatt
The Importance Of The Outpatient Treatment Team In ED Recovery
Whether you’re just starting to consider that you might have a problem with eating, you’re newly diagnosed with an eating disorder, or you’ve struggled for years, the benefits of working with an outpatient treatment team cannot be underestimated. Finding a team can be confusing and frustrating, so if you’re just starting out, where do you begin? How do you find outpatient providers? What do they do?
What I Learned From The Plus Sized Runner On The Cover of Women’s Running Magazine
When I read the headline, “Magazine puts a Plus Size Model on the Cover and Twitter Freaks out”, my first reaction was one of frustration. Why, I thought, is the world so irritated by larger bodies? What is it about plus size models that people react so strongly to? Why can’t plus size models be shown running on the cover of a runner’s magazine? Would a plus size male model have caused Twitter to “freak out”?
Can Babies Be Body Shamed?
We try to protect our kids from danger and do our best to keep them shielded from things that could make them feel bad. We teach them not to speak to strangers, make sure that they put on their sunscreen and wear a helmet and we don't talk about "adult matters" while in their presence. We do this to keep them safe, and because we know that infancy and childhood are supposed to be times filled with nurture, exploration, play and discovery that should not be infringed upon by stress, jealousy, self-degradation and dare I say it, body image issues.
Coping with Binge Eating Disorder in College: Tips for Success
College is an exciting and challenging time in a young adult's life. It’s a big transition for students to move away from home and start making independent decisions. Transitions often bring about stress, and coping can be difficult without the right tools. Some turn to food to ease the pain, so it’s not surprising that binge eating disorder (BED) is a growing problem among college students.
I’m in College: How Do I Get Help For My Eating Disorder?
What if you are a student who is struggling with an eating disorder, but you don't want to admit it?  To those students who are not struggling, it might seem obvious that they would reach out for help. There may however, be a plethora of reasons holding this person back from seeking help. If you are college student struggling with an eating disorder, hopefully after reading the common anxieties that often deter college students from seeking treatment, you will feel more encouraged to find yourself the help you deserve.
We’re Here, We’re Queer, And Yes, We Get Eating Disorders Too!
The often portrayed media image of eating disorders as something that effects only young, white, middle- and upper-class women continues to render many with eating disorders invisible. One such population is people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning (LGBTQ).