Eating Disorders Books
A Psychotherapeutic Understanding of Eating Disorders in Children and Young People: Ways to Release the Imprisoned Self
This important book shows how psychotherapy can address severe eating disorders in children and young people, illustrating the ways an imprisoned self can be released from suffering.
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Attachment, Relationships and Food: From Cradle to Kitchen
Using attachment theory as a lens for understanding the role of food in our everyday lives, this book explores relationships with other people, with ourselves and between client and therapist,... (more)
Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction
This book presents an accessible introduction to the conceptualization and treatment of eating disorders from a psychoanalytic perspective.
Each of the chapters offers a different perspective on... (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)
Body-States: Interpersonal and Relational Perspectives on the Treatment of Eating Disorders
In this edited volume, Jean Petrucelli brings together the work of talented clinicians and researchers steeped in working with eating disordered patients for the past 10 to 35 years. Eating disorders... (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)
Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia: How to Help (2nd Edition)
This new edition continues the outstanding tradition of excellence for which Duker and Slade's Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia: How to Help is internationally recognised. Updated to meet contemporary... (more)
Treatment Manual for Anorexia Nervosa: A Family-Based Approach: Second Edition
This indispensable manual presents the leading empirically supported treatment approach for adolescents with anorexia nervosa (AN). What sets family-based treatment apart is the central role played... (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)
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)
Hungers and Compulsions: The Psychodynamic Treatment of Eating Disorders and Addictions
This book will help therapists understand and treat patients suffering from mild to dangerous forms of eating disorders, other compulsions and addictions, such as alcoholism, and even erotic... (more)
8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder Workbook
8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder was lauded as a "brave and hopeful book" as well as "remarkably readable". Now, the authors have returned with a companion workbook-offering all new... (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)
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)
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)
Family Therapy for Adolescent Eating and Weight Disorders: New Applications
Family-based treatment (FBT) for eating disorders is an outpatient therapy where parents are the main resource in treatment. The therapist supports the parents to do the work nurses would have done... (more)
8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder: Effective Strategies from Therapeutic Practice and Personal Experience
This is no ordinary book on how to overcome an eating disorder. The authors bravely share their unique stories of suffering from and eventually overcoming their own severe eating disorders.... (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)
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)
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up: A Memoir
Evanna Lynch has long been viewed as a role model for people recovering from anorexia and the story of her casting as Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter films has reached almost mythic proportions.... (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)
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)
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)
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)