Eating Disorders Books
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder: The New Maudsley Skills-Based Training Manual
Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder: The New Maudsley Skills-Based Training Manual provides a framework for carer skills workshops which can be used by anyone working with these... (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)
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)
Drawing from Within: Using Art to Treat Eating Disorders
Drawing from Within is an introductory guide for those wanting to explore the use of art with clients with eating disorders. Art therapy is a particularly effective therapeutic intervention for this... (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)
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)
Anorexia Nervosa: A Recovery Guide for Sufferers, Families and Friends: Second Revised Edition
Fifteen years have passed since the highly respected and widely known Anorexia Nervosa: A Survival Guide for Sufferers and Friends was written. This long awaited new edition builds on the work of the... (more)
Anorexia Nervosa: Hope for Recovery
A guide to the factors that precipitate Anorexia Nervosa and then sustain it and how these can be overcome, looking particularly at underlying body chemistry and the effects of short and long term... (more)
Demystifying Anorexia Nervosa: An Optimistic Guide to Understanding and Healing
Emotionally and physically devastating, anorexia nervosa is the third most common chronic illness in teenage girls, striking one in every two hundred (boys only make up 10% of all cases). And while... (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)
Prison of Food: Research and Treatment of Eating Disorders
This groundbreaking volume concentrates on solution-oriented treatment of some of the most difficult pathologies - anorexia, bulimia and vomiting (as a separate category introduced by Nardone et al).... (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)
Brief Therapy and Eating Disorders: A Practical Guide to Solution Focused Work with Clients
Offering practitioners a guide to clinically sound treatment and drawing from her own clinical experience as founder of the Eating Disorders Recovery Centre, the author demonstrates the benefits of... (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)
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)
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)
Eating less: Take control of overeating
Emphasising healthy eating and eating less, the author offers solutions to overeating by looking at thoughts and beliefs about food. The book introduces techniques to apply in daily life, showing the... (more)
When Dieting becomes Dangerous: A Guide to Understanding and Treating Anorexia and Bulimia
This primer on anorexia and bulimia is aimed directly at patients and the people who care about them. Written in simple, straightforward language by two experts in the field, it describes the... (more)