Eating Disorders Books
Annual Review of Eating Disorders
"Last year's Review was very well received, by researchers and clinicians alike, and I am confident that the same will be true this year. Keeping track of the latest developments in the research on... (more)
Personality Disorders and Eating Disorders: Exploring the Frontier
Personality Disorders and Eating Disorders explores and defines the multifaceted relationship between these two fields in a cogent synthesis of prevalence, etiology, and treatment. The book brings... (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)
Eating and Weight Disorders
Eating disorders refer to a range of problems characterized by abnormal eating behaviours and beliefs about eating, weight, and shape. Eating disorders, which are classified as psychiatric problems,... (more)
Boys Get Anorexia Too: Coping with Male Eating Disorders in the Family
Eating disorders are usually associated with females, but there are an increasing number of males affected by anorexia and bulimia. Often, there is a link between male eating disorders and athletic... (more)
The Essential Handbook of Eating Disorders
In recent years our knowledge and understanding of eating disorders has advanced rapidly, with the diagnosis being expanded to include problems such as obesity and binge eating, and widespread... (more)
Counselling for Eating Disorders in Women: Person-Centred Dialogues
Focuses on women whose eating patterns have generated side-effects on other aspects of their lives such as work, health and family. This book is useful for trainees and experienced counsellors,... (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)
Weight Wisdom: Affirmations to Free You from Food and Body Concerns
In this work, the authors offer practical advice about recovery from eating disorders in the form of daily affirmations that focus on the irrational beliefs, thoughts and fears behind... (more)
Hunger for Understanding: A Workbook for Helping Young People Understand Anorexia Nervosa
This flexible book has been designed for use by therapists as part of a programme when working with young people with eating disorders. The aim is to help young people understand more about their own... (more)
The Monster Within: Facing an Eating Disorder
An outwardly successful television news reporter who suffered from bulimia tells the story of her descent into sickness, her struggle to learn why she was engaging in slow suicide, and the courage... (more)
Counselling for Eating Disorders in Men: Person-centred Dialogues
According to the Eating Disorders Association there is a general lack of recognition of eating disorders in men, making it more difficult for male patients to access specialist services, although... (more)
Counselling for Obesity: Person-Centred Dialogues
In The United Kingdom over 30,000 deaths a year are caused by obesity. Counsellors, trainees and other healthcare and social care professionals need to understand and experience the diverse and... (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)
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)
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)
Eating Disorders and Cultures in Transition
Eating Disorders and Cultures in Transition is written by an international group of authors to address the recent emergence of eating disorders in various areas of the world including countries in... (more)
Sensing the Self: Women's Recovery from Bulimia
Perceptive, lucid, and above all humane, this book will be welcomed not only by professionals but by people who struggle with an eating disorder and by those who love them. (more)
Eating disorders: Anatomy of a social epidemic
In an extensively-revised edition, Richard Gordon presents more information and discussion of ideas in the field of eating disorders. He discusses the clinical/psychological aspects of the disorders,... (more)
The etiology and treatment of bulimia nervosa:
Offers a model of the aetiology of bulimia and for implementing treatment. This work describes how, for example, a family history of affective disorders, disturbances in the mother-child relationship... (more)
Bulimarexia the binge/purge cycle: The Binge/Purge Cycle
Explores the psychological and physiological effects of eating disorders, and discusses family therapy, nutritional counseling, preventive programs, and the negative aspects of drug therapy. (more)
A Systemic Treatment of Bulimia Nervosa: Women in Transition
This text presents an approach to working with women who have bulimia nervosa which is based on research showing that bulimia nervosa involves interpersonal, social and societal factors as well as... (more)