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.
Speaking Engagements and Events
Blog Posts by Dr. James Greenblatt
Face The Unknown And Trust
I recently had an appointment at my hairdresser's. As I sat in her chair, I thought to myself, maybe I should get a different hair color and spice it up. My thoughts were a bit fearful as I didn't know what I wanted and would have to trust my hairdresser fully. Would I be able to trust her to give me a color that would compliment my skin tone? Would I be able to trust her to know what was best for me? Would I be able to trust her not to make me look funny when I was done? All these thoughts went through my mind. Even though I had fear inside, I was excited for what could be.
Recovery: What Can I Expect For My Adolescent?
Some time after we began outpatient treatment at Walden Behavioral Care I put a picture on my Facebook page of my daughter in her bathing suit by the pool, eating an ice cream with her sister. Many of my acquaintances who did not know about her earlier hospitalization for an eating disorder probably glanced at the photo and said to themselves,“oh, a picture of your kid, big deal.”
Humor Is Important On Your ED Recovery Journey
With Ed, a sense of humor is pretty much non-existent. You usually don’t laugh at anything because you are so numb to your feelings. Ed keeps you close on a tight leash and if you do laugh at something it’s usually a fake laugh…like you laugh when appropriate at someone’s joke, but not really feel it deep inside. You only go through the motions to fit in and you can’t even laugh at yourself. But when you are with recovery all that changes and laughter is present in everything you do and it feels wonderful.
Athletes More Susceptible To Eating Disorders
Athletes – both men and women – may be two to three times more likely to have an eating disorder than the average person, according to a 1999 study of college athletes by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. A 2004 study of top athletes in Norway reached a similar conclusion, finding that 13.5% of athletes surveyed had an eating disorder, compared with 4.6% of the control group.
Barbie Finally Gains Some Weight
For more than five decades, Barbie has been an iconic toy for millions of youth around the world. She has maintained her position as one of the nation’s top-selling toys for young girls aged three to 12. Despite her popularity, many people have expressed concern over her unrealistic bodily proportions.
What Do You Dream About?
When I was with Ed, I didn't have any dreams or goals. My main concentration was Ed and Ed alone. I listened to what he told me, I did what he said and I didn't ask questions. I let Ed plan my life for me and followed his path. I didn't know at the time that he was killing me and taking away everything from me. I was too brainwashed by Ed to see clearly.