Department of Psychiatry

Hadassah University Medical Center

P.O.B. 12000, Ein Karem, Jerusalem

Israel, 91120

Tel: 08-9725272

Cellular: 053-655868

E-mail: lcanetti@hotmail.com

Date of birth: 17.8.58

Place of birth: Uruguay, citizen of Israel from 1978

Civil status: married

Personal address: Nahar HaYarden 121, Modiin, 71700

Education

1983-1987 - Haifa University, Israel.  B.A. Psychology and Universal History

1986-1990 - Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  M.A. Clinical Psychology

1998 - Presently studying for the PhD (my doctoral thesis is about the psychological consequences of gastroplasty and dieting in superobese people)

Employment

2000-present  - Hadassah University Medical Center, Jerusalem.  Senior psychologist in outpatient clinic at and part of a research team on eating disorders

1993-2000 - Kiryat Yovel Mental Health Center, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem.  Clinical psychologist and from 1996 Supervisor of students of clinical psychology and also continued working at Hadassah Univ. Medical Center as part of a research team

1990-1992 - Hadassah University Medical Center, Jerusalem.  Clinical Psychologist

Research Interests

-  efficacy of psychotherapy

-  adolescence

-  obesity

-  eating disorders

List of Publications

A. Chapters in books

Canetti, L. (2001). The right of being. In Bachar, E. (Ed)., The fear of occupying space: self psychology in the treatment of anorexia and bulimia (pp. 149-156). Jerusalem: Magnes University Press (Hebrew).

B. Papers in journals

Bachar, E., Canetti, L., Bonne, O., Kaplan De-Nour, A., & Shalev, A.Y. (1997). Physical punishment and signs of mental distress in normal adolescents. Adolescence, 32, 945-958.

Bachar, E., Canetti, L, Bonne, O., Kaplan De-Nour, A., & Shalev, A.Y. (1997). Psychological well-being and ratings of psychiatric symptoms in Israeli bereaved adolescents: differential effect of war vs. accident related bereavement. Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, 185, 402-406.

Bachar, E., Canetti, L., Bonne, O., Kaplan-DeNour, A, & Shalev, A.Y.(1998). Pre-adolescent chumship as a buffer against psychopathology in adolescents with weak family support and weak parental bonding. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 27, 209-220.

Bachar, E., Canetti, L., Galili-Weisstub, E., Kaplan-DeNour, A., & Shalev, A.Y. (1998). Childhood vs. adolescence transitional object attachment and its relation to mental health and parental bonding. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 28, 149-167.

Bachar, E., Latzer, Y., Canetti, L., Gur, E., Berry, E.M., & Bonne, O. (2002) Rejection of life in anorexic and bulimic patients. International  Journal of Eating Disorders, 31, 42-48.

Berry, E.M.., Kelly, D., Canetti, L., & Bachar, E. (1998). Word association test and psychosexual cues in assessing persons with eating disorders. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 86, 43-50.

Bonne, O., Canetti, L., Bachar, E., De-Nour, A.K., & Shalev, A.Y. (1999). Childhood imaginary companionship and mental health in adolescence. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 29, 277-286.

Canetti, L., Bachar, E., & Berry, E.M. (2002). Food and emotion. Behavioral Processes, 60, 157-164.

Canetti, L., Bachar, E., Bonne, O., Agid, O., Lerer, B., Kaplan De-Nour, A., & Shalev, A. (2000). The impact of parental death versus separation from parents on the mental health of Israeli adolescents. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 41, 360-368.

Canetti, L., Bachar, E., Galili-Weisstub, E., Kaplan-DeNour, A., & Shalev, A.Y. (1997). Parental Bonding and mental health in adolescence. Adolescence, 32, 381-394.

Canetti, L., Shalev, A.Y., & Kaplan De-Nour, A. (1994). Israeli adolescents' norms of the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI). Israeli Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences, 31, 13-18.

Kreitler, Sh., Bachar, E., Canetti, L., Berry, E., & Bonne, O. (2003). Cognitive orientation theory of anorexia nervosa. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 59, 1-20.

Latzer, Y., Hochdorf, Z., Canetti, L., & Bachar, E. (2002). Insecure attachment style and low encouragement of personal growth in eating disorder patients. Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory, Research and Practice, in press.

Latzer, Y., Hochdorf, Z., Canetti, L., & Bachar, E. (2002). Attachment style in anorexia and bulimia. Contemporary Family Therapy, in press.

Shalev, A., Peri, T., Canetti, L. & Shreiber, S. (1996). Predictors of PTSD in injured trauma survivors: a prospective study. American Journal of Psychiatry, 153, 219-225.

Shefler, G., Canetti, L., & Wiseman, H. (2001). Psychometric properties of Goal Attainment Scaling in the assessment of Mann’s Time Limited Psychotherapy. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 57, 971-979.

Shefler, G., Canetti, L., Wiseman, H., & Ronen, Y. (1990). An application of the events’ paradigma to time limited psychotherapy. Israel Journal of Psychotherapy, 4, 183-192 (Hebrew).

Wiseman,  H.,  Shefler,  G.,  Canetti, L.  &  Ronen, Y. (1993). A systematic comparison of two cases in Mann's time-limited psychotherapy: An events approach. Psychotherapy Research, 3, 227-244

C. Conferences

Bachar, E., Canetti, L., and Berry, E. (2002). Long term consequences of the Holocaust on eating pathology. 10th  International Conference on Eating Disorders, Boston, U.S.A.

Canetti, L. (2003). Weight loss and psychological adaptation in morbid obese: a comparative evaluation of gastroplasty and a conventional program for losing weight. The Third Israeli Conference for the  Treatment,  Research and Prevention of Eating Disorders, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Canetti, L., Stein, D., Bachar, E., & Gur, E. (2002). A prevention program for eating disorders applied to middle school students. The Second Israeli Conference for the Treatment, Research and Prevention of Eating Disorders, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Latzer, Y, Hochdorf, Z., Bachar, E., & Canetti, L. (2001). Attachment style and family functioning as discriminating factors in eating disorders. The Fourth London Conference on Eating Disorders, London, United Kindom.

D. Submitted papers

Bachar, E., Canetti, L., Yonah, I., & Bonne, O. Group vs. individual expressive-supportive psychotherapy for chronic, symptomatically stabilized outpatients.

Bachar, E., Canetti, L.,  & Berry, E., Lack of long-lasting consequences of starvation on eating pathology in Jewish Holocaust survivors of Nazi concentration camps.