Eating Disorders Books
Re-Thinking Eating Disorders: Language, Emotion, and the Brain - A New Treatment
This book tells the story of what happens in the brain when an eating disorder develops and what has to happen to bring an eating disorder to an end. It describes a new way of thinking about and... (more)
Psychoanalytic Treatment of Eating Disorders: When Words Fail and Bodies Speak
Psychoanalytic Treatment of Eating Disorders: When Words Fail and Bodies Speak offers a compilation of some of the most innovative thinking on psychoanalytic approaches to the treatment of eating... (more)
The Anorexic Mind
Eating disorders vary in severity from developmental difficulties in adolescence which may be transitory, to serious and chronic mental illnesses. The Anorexic Mind offers a coherent approach to... (more)
Internal Landscapes and Foreign Bodies: Eating Disorders and Other Pathologies
Klein's model of projective and introjective processes and Bion's model of the relationship between container and contained have become increasingly significant in clinical work. In a highly... (more)
Lost for Words: The Psychoanalysis of Anorexia and Bulimia
Explores in both a sophisticated and accessible way the inner experience of patients with eating disorders. The book details the maturation of the psychoanalytic perspective on these conditions as... (more)
Larger than Life: Six Women and their Battle with Obesity as seen through the Eyes of a Dramatherapist
Larger than Life is aimed at anyone interested in obesity and its treatment. It follows a dramatherapy group attended by six women, all struggling with their weight, using vignettes, transcriptions... (more)
False Bodies, True Selves: Moving Beyond Appearance-Focused Identity Struggles and Returning to the True Self
False Bodies, True Selves explores the phenomenon of growing numbers of people in western society and beyond completely embedding their sense of identity in their appearance. Unlike other books which... (more)
Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder: Second Edition
Tens of thousands of parents have turned to this compassionate resource for support and practical advice grounded in cutting-edge scientific knowledge. Numerous vivid stories show how to recognize... (more)
Taking a Detailed Eating Disorder History: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinicians
Taking a Detailed Eating Disorder History educates healthcare clinicians of all backgrounds on how to best acquire a detailed eating disorder history and expands the clinical standard and... (more)
Working With Eating Disorders: A Psychoanalytic Approach
Eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia are increasingly prevalent in today's society and of great concern to a wide range of health-related professionals, including counsellors and... (more)
An Internal Family Systems Guide to Recovery from Eating Disorders: Healing Part by Part
Drawing on the evidence-based Internal Family System (IFS) therapy model, An Internal Family Systems Guide to Recovery from Eating Disorders addresses the necessity of healing the eating disorder... (more)
Mindful Eating from the Dialectical Perspective: Research and Application
Mindful Eating from the Dialectical Perspective is both a research reference and exhaustive guide to implementing a practice of mindful eating grounded in dialectical behavior therapy. This... (more)
Pursuing Perfection: Eating Disorders, Body Myths, and Women at Midlife and Beyond
In Pursuing Perfection, authors Margo Maine and Joe Kelly explore the emotional, social and cultural factors behind the ongoing epidemic of disordered eating and body image despair in adult women at... (more)
Integrative Cognitive-Affective Therapy for Bulimia Nervosa: A Treatment Manual
Packed with useful clinical tools, this state-of-the-art manual presents an empirically supported treatment solidly grounded in current scientific knowledge. Integrative cognitive-affective therapy... (more)
Getting Better Bit(e) by Bit(e): Survival Kit for Sufferers of Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorders: Second Edition
An essential, authoritative and evidence-based self-help programme that has been used by bulimia sufferersfor over 20 years. This new edition maintains the essence of the original book, while... (more)
Finding a Voice: Family Therapy for Young People with Anorexia
Young people develop anorexia because they are unhappy. In the process of becoming anorexic they silence themselves and distance themselves from parental support. Family therapy can help patients by... (more)
Overcoming Binge Eating: The Proven Program to Learn Why You Binge and How You Can Stop: Second Edition
This book has already offered tremendous help to more than 100,000 readers struggling with out-of-control eating. Christopher G. Fairburn presents a scientifically based blueprint for breaking free... (more)
Eating Disorders: A Parents' Guide: Second Edition
Eating problems are common in children and teenagers. Yet myths about such problems abound and it can be very difficult to separate the facts from popular beliefs; unusual or disturbed eating... (more)
Maintaining Recovery from Eating Disorders: Avoiding Relapse and Recovering Life
After achieving a level of recovery from an eating disorder, it is vital to ensure the right practical and emotional supports are in place to maintain that recovery indefinitely. In this important... (more)
One Life: Hope, Healing and Inspiration on the Path to Recovery from Eating Disorders
Many people with an eating disorder also sufer from low self-esteem, depression and anxiety. Eating disorders such an Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia are maladaptive coping mechanisms, and recovery... (more)
The Golden Cage: The Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa
Often quoting her patients descriptions of their own experience of illness and recovery, Hilde Bruch described the relentless pursuit of thinness and the search for superiority in self-denial that... (more)
Exploring Eating Disorders in Adolescents: The Generosity of Acceptance
The number of people suffering from different eating disorders has grown dramatically within the last twenty years. These two volumes examine feeding difficulties and eating disorders in children and... (more)
Exploring Feeding Difficulties in Children: The Generosity of Acceptance
The number of people suffering from different eating disorders has grown dramatically within the last twenty years. These two volumes examine feeding difficulties and eating disorders in children and... (more)
Eating Disorders: The Journey to Recovery Workbook
Two seasoned clinicians with years of experience in the treatment of eating disorders offer this practical tool and adjunct to one-to-one and group therapy. In readable style and conversational tone,... (more)
Family Based Treatment for Restrictive Eating Disorders: A Guide for Supervision and Advanced Clinical Practice
Family Based Treatment for Restrictive Eating Disorders unpacks some of the most common dilemmas providers face in implementation of Family Based Treatment (FBT) across the spectrum of restrictive... (more)
Biting the Hand That Starves You: Inspiring Resistance to Anorexia/Bulimia
The authors' decade-and-a-half collaboration with 'insiders' has yielded fresh answers to these life and death questions: How does anorexia/bulimia seduce and terrorize girls and women? Why is... (more)
Father Hunger: Fathers, Daughters, and the Pursuit of Thinness: Second Edition
This work investigates the food and body-image disorders experienced by women whose fathers were physically or emotionally absent. It details the origins of the syndrome and its effect on the family,... (more)
Anorexia and Bulimia in the Family: One Parent's Practical Guide to Recovery
This is the story of one family's struggle with a daughter with an eating disorder. Candid, insightful and informative, it details the onset and symptoms of AN/BN, the effects on family life and... (more)
Handbook of Eating Disorders and Obesity
Featuring contributions from an international group of experts, the "Handbook of Eating Disorders and Obesity" is a broad-based resource that explores the major classifications of eating disorders:... (more)