Eating Disorders Books
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)
Severe and Enduring Eating Disorder (SEED): Management of Complex Presentations of Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa
Eating disorders are usually regarded as acute illnesses that patients either recover from or die from. They are rarely classified as severe and enduring in the same way as other mental disorders... (more)
Binge-eating Disorder: Clinical Foundations and Treatment
This innovative scientific reference and clinical tool is virtually two books in one. Part I thoroughly yet succinctly reviews the literature on binge-eating disorder, covering diagnosis and... (more)
Creating Bodies: Eating Disorders as Self-Destructive Survival
Hannah wrote 18 diaries between the ages of 14 and 32. In the excerpts reprinted herein, we watch Hannah navigate violent adolescent friendships, descend into anorexia and bulimia, marry an abusive... (more)
The Overweight Patient: A Psychological Approach to Understanding and Working with Obesity
This practical guide approaches obesity and overeating from a psychological perspective, and offers sensitive methods to increase patients sense of self-worth, self-knowledge, and motivation to lose... (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)
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)
Family-Based Treatment for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder
This book describes the theoretical and clinical rationale for the use of Family-Based Treatment (FBT) for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID).
Based on years of clinical care and... (more)
A Practical Self-Help Guide to Managing Comfort Eating
A Practical Self-Help Guide to Comfort Eating is a workbook that helps build understanding and make sense of emotional or comfort eating and offers new ways to think about and manage relationships... (more)
Mindfulness and Eating Disorders across the Lifespan: Assessment and Intervention through the Emotion Regulation Paradigm
This important and well researched volume examines the clinical phenomenon of eating disorders, exploring their longitudinal risk trajectory and introducing the Mindful Emotion Regulation - Approach... (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)
Weight Expectations: One Man's Recovery from Anorexia
Part memoir, part self-help guide, this witty book will take you through the day-to-day struggles of living with an eating disorder. Stand-up comedian Dave Chawner tells the story of how he became... (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)
Using Writing as a Therapy for Eating Disorders: The Diary Healer
Using Writing as a Therapy for Eating Disorders: The diary uses a unique combination of evidence-based research and raw diary excerpts to explain the pitfalls and benefits of diary writing during... (more)
Handbook of Assessment and Treatment of Eating Disorders
The recent publication of the revised Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) has had a profound impact on the classification of eating disorders, introducing changes that were... (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)
Healing Eating Disorders with Psychodrama and Other Action Methods: Beyond the Silence and the Fury
Psychodrama and other action methods are especially helpful in the treatment of the classic eating disorders as well as dieting struggles, body dissatisfaction and associated issues of fear, sadness,... (more)
Eating and Its Disorders
Features contributions by international experts in the field of eating disorders which represent an overview of the most current knowledge relating to the assessment, treatment, and future research... (more)
Treating Bulimia in Adolescents: A Family-Based Approach
An indispensable clinical resource, this groundbreaking book is the first treatment manual to focus specifically on adolescent bulimia nervosa. The authors draw on their proven approach to treating... (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)
Overcoming Your Eating Disorder: A Cognitive-behavioral Therapy Approach for Bulimia Nervosa and Binge-eating Disorder: Guided Self-help Workbook
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has been proven effective for treating Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder. However, this type of program requires at least 6 months of weekly sessions with a... (more)
Overcoming Bulimia and Binge-eating Self-help Course: Part 1
Since it was first published in 1993, Peter Cooper's "Bulimia and Binge-Eating" has helped thousands of people recover from this disorder. It has won the respect of therapists and patients alike for... (more)
Eating Disorders
Even those clinicians who have a special expertise in the treatment of eating disorders frequently find themselves in despair after trying unsuccessfully to persuade a seriously ill patient to accept... (more)
The Invisible Man: A Self-help Guide for Men with Eating Disorders, Compulsive Exercise and Bigorexia
Increasingly boys and men are suffering with eating disorders and related body image problems. Some have full-blown conditions such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating, compulsive exercising... (more)
Overcoming Body Image Disturbance: A Programme for People with Eating Disorders
People with eating disorders often exhibit serious misconceptions about their own body image. "Overcoming Body Image Disturbance" provides a treatment programme (piloted by the authors) for people... (more)
The Psychology of Bulimia Nervosa: A Cognitive Perspective
This book provides a comprehensive and detailed review of the key psychological aspects of a disorder which affects 1-2% of the population, the majority of which are women aged 16-35. The coverage... (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)
Childhood Feeding Problems and Adolescent Eating Disorders
How should feeding problems arising in childhood and later eating disorders be assessed and treated? Disturbances in eating arising in infancy, early childhood and adolescence are increasingly being... (more)
Bulimia/Anorexia: The Binge/Purge Cycle and Self-Starvation
This volume is a source of information on the dynamics of eating disorders. It provides information on adolescent danger signals, socialization and the family, physiological effects, the challenges... (more)