Interpersonal psychotherapy focuses on teaching the patient to identify, monitor, and modify dysfunctional attitudes, core beliefs, and eating habits to lessen binges and "retrain" normal hunger and satiety responses.

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Interpersonal psychotherapy focuses on improving interpersonal relationships and communication patterns to address psychological problems, not directly on modifying dysfunctional attitudes, core beliefs, and eating habits. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is more aligned with the approach described.

Interpersonal Psychotherapy Focuses on Teaching the Patient to Identify, Monitor