Eating Disorders Books
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)
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)
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)
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)
Creative Arts Therapies and Clients with Eating Disorders
Drawing on the expertise of leading creative arts therapists from around the world, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the role of the creative arts in the treatment of clients with... (more)
Fat is A Feminist Issue
The original anti-diet book is back - in one volume, together with its best-selling sequel. When it was first published, Fat Is A Feminist Issue became an instant classic and it is as relevant today... (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)
Embodiment and the Treatment of Eating Disorders: The Body as a Resource in Recovery
Embodiment refers to the attunement of the inner and outer self. Cognitions are aligned with the sensing and feeling body. Further, in an attuned experience of self, positive embodiment is maintained... (more)
ARFID Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: A Guide for Parents and Carers
ARFID Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: A Guide for Parents and Carers is an accessible summary of a relatively recent diagnostic term. People with ARFID may show little interest in eating,... (more)
Schema Therapy for Eating Disorders: Theory and Practice for Individual and Group Settings
Options can be limited for those who do not respond to standard eating disorder treatments. Schema therapy is one of the new exciting frontiers in the treatment of this clinical population, offering... (more)
A Cognitive-Interpersonal Therapy Workbook for Treating Anorexia Nervosa: The Maudsley Model
Based on the authors' pioneering work and up-to-date research at London's Maudsley hospital, A Cognitive Interpersonal Therapy Workbook for Treating Anorexia Nervosa provides adults with anorexia... (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)
I Can Beat Anorexia!: Finding the Motivation, Confidence and Skills to Recover and Avoid Relapse
Beating anorexia is much more than a physical process. To overcome the mental and social challenges in recovery, you will need motivation, strength and a positive new mindset. Having recovered from... (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)
Brief Group Psychotherapy for Eating Disorders: Inpatient Protocols
In the treatment of Anorexia Nervosa, delivering psychological interventions in a group format can bring unique benefits in addition to those associated with working with patients individually. These... (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)
Cognitive Remediation Therapy (CRT) for Eating and Weight Disorders
The effective treatment of anorexia nervosa (AN) remains a significant challenge. This has prompted new research into ways of engaging and keeping patients in treatment and ultimately achieving... (more)
Understanding Your Eating: How to Eat and Not Worry About It
Are you eating more than you should? Trapped in a constant cycle of dieting? Perpetually anxious about your weight, shape and size? Many of us fight an ongoing battle with food.
Understanding Your... (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)
Hunger Strike: The Anorectic's Struggle as a Metaphor for our Age
In this classic text, originally published in 1986, Susie Orbach brilliantly examines the anorectic's struggle. Anorexia is a battle; a battle to be thin; a battle of wills, denial versus desire. It... (more)
Eating Disorders and Magical Control of the Body: Treatment Through Art Therapy
Opens with an examination of the concept of magical thinking and its relationship to the wider concepts of magic. This type of thinking is then linked to ideas about eating in a variety of settings... (more)
Eating Disorders and Expressed Emotion: Integrating Treatment, Intervention, and a Positive Family Environment
The first to synthesize the exponentially growing research on expressed emotion (EE) and eating disorders and apply it to treatment, interventions, and other scenarios, this unique text provides... (more)
The Clinical Guide to Fertility, Motherhood, and Eating Disorders: From Shame to Self-Acceptance
This book is a comprehensive guide to addressing, working with, and healing from emotional struggles related to fertility and eating disorders. Covering the emotional, psychological and physical... (more)
Brief Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Non-Underweight Patients: CBT-T for Eating Disorders
Most people with eating disorders struggle to find an effective therapy that they can access quickly. Brief Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Non-Underweight Patients: CBT-T for Eating Disorders... (more)
ACT for Anorexia Nervosa: A Guide for Clinicians
This is the first book to present a roadmap for tailoring acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to the serious, complex challenges of anorexia nervosa (AN). Leading authorities describe... (more)
The Recovery Mama Guide to Your Eating Disorder Recovery in Pregnancy and Postpartum
This book offers friendly, realistic advice to support pregnant women and new mothers struggling with changing body image, eating disorders or postpartum depression. Self-care tips and recovery tools... (more)
8 Keys to End Emotional Eating: Autonomy and the Spirit of Rebellion
Traditional diet books focus on meal plans, low- calorie solutions and quick fixes. But these approaches just treat the symptoms, not the cause- which leads many dieters to return to their bad... (more)
Why You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food
An exploration into the psychology of eating in today's unprecedented first world pantry of abundance, access and excess, Why You Eat What You Eat examines the sensory, psychological, neuroscientific... (more)
Parents with Eating Disorders: An Intervention Guide
This groundbreaking volume presents a new conceptual approach to treating adults with eating disorders and their children. By utilizing Parent-Based Prevention, a state-of-the-art intervention... (more)