Eating disorders and therapy Books

The statistics regarding eating disorders are staggering. 30 million people in the U.S. alone suffer from eating disorders and every 62 minutes, a person dies as a direct result of an eating disorder. In fact, there is a higher mortality rate from eating...

I know exactly how you feel.You feel helpless and tormented by a disease that's ruling your life.You can't control it.You see no way out of it.You've tried every path you've found without getting results, and you're desperate to find...

This heartbreaking memoir tells the powerful true storyof the author's struggle with anorexia and the affects ofsuffering with the illness. By sharing her story, JessicaMason writes in order to show the reader what it's liketo be controlled by this...

The book is an interview about how the twins have coped with the anorexia and how it has affected them individually. Although Sarah has admitted she has anorexia, she cannot say that she is recovered or may not ever fully recover. She can say however,...

This is an insightful and essential new volume for academics and professionals interested in the lived experience of those who struggle with disordered eating. Embodiment and Eating Disorders situates the complicated - and increasingly prevalent - topic...

Inspired by the increasing need to consider developmental factors in understanding the etiology and treatment of mental diseases, The Oxford Handbook of Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders: Developmental Perspectives takes an innovative approach to...

This is an artistic clinical workbook for those who are struggling with Anorexia, for parents with children that are struggling with an Eating Disorder or clinicians that work with Eating Disorders. The book is divided by 43 unique and inspiring images,...

Now in its third edition, Beyond a Shadow of a Diet is the most comprehensive book available for professionals working with clients who struggle with binge and emotional eating, chronic dieting, and body image.

In the fourth edition of this accessible and comprehensive book, Bryan Lask and Rachel Bryant-Waugh build on the research and expertise of the previous three editions. First published in 1993, this was the first book of its kind to explore eating...

This clinician manual presents the Accept Yourself! Program, which is derived from empirically supported interventions (including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Health At Every Size) that have a demonstrated ability to enhance women's mental and...

There is a growing body of research exploring the effectiveness of yoga as a pathway to positive embodiment for those at-risk for and struggling with eating disorders. This book provides a comprehensive look at the state of the field.This book begins...

An invaluable resource for adolescents suffering from anorexia nervosaThere are few things more difficult for an adolescent than battling Anorexia Nervosa (AN). While family, caregivers, and friends can support them to eat and recover, psychological...

Are you struggling with Family Based Treatment?Family Based Treatment (FBT) is viewed as the gold standard in treating adolescent Anorexia Nervosa and it currently produces the best evidence-based outcomes. However, the treatment is intensive and...

The Overweight Mind and Body is a self-help guide to understanding the psychological issues that lead to overeating and weight gain.The book enables the reader to discover the psychological drives that lead to unwanted weight and to find ways of meeting...

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 with food and weight.Based on a tried and tested...

Emotion Regulation for Young People with Eating Disorders is a supportive guide for professionals to help them build effective therapeutic relationships with young people struggling with eating disorders. The book focuses on the role of emotion...

""The Ethnology of the Sixth Sense"" is a comprehensive study on the various abuses, perversions, follies, anomalies, and crimes associated with the sixth sense. Written by the pseudonymous author X. Jacobus and originally published in 1899, this book...

This book presents experiences of LGBTQ+ people relating to food, bodies, nutrition, health, wellbeing and being queer through critical writing and creative art.

Multi-Family Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa is a treatment manual that details an empirically supported and innovative treatment for this disorder.This book provides a detailed description of the theory and clinical practice of MFT-AN. The treatment draws...

A detailed healthy guide to understanding and eliminating body fat naturally by treating binge eating disorders. Do you feel stuck and unable to end over eating?Are you unable to lose weight or to keep weight off when dieting? This guide will...

With so many women approaching their diets, body image, and pursuit of a slender figure with slavish devotion, The Religion of Thinness is a timely addition to the discussion of our cultural obsession with weight loss. At the heart of this obsession is...

In this powerful guide, Kingsbury and Williams equip readers with simple reflections, vignettes, and everyday analogies that they have successfully used with their own clients to counter destructive feelings and shatter distorted ideas of food and weight...

Bariatric surgery plays an important role in the treatment of obesity; in this comprehensive resource the worldwide leaders of the field provide the most up-to-date information on the psychosocial issues that affect their patients. Included is an...

Choice Recommended ReadThis insightful, thought-provoking, and engaging book explores the truth behind how and why we eat and drink what we do. Instead of promising easy answers to eliminating picky eating or weight loss, this book approaches...

Family-based treatment (FBT) for eating disorders is an outpatient therapy in which parents are utilized as the primary resource in treatment. The therapist supports the parents to do the work nurses would have done if the patient were hospitalized to an...

Intuitively aware there was more to eating disorders than food and weight, JL Keez was determined to understand why Anorexia Nervosa appeared at age 15. A gripping, revealing first- hand account of resilience and utter struggle, including debilitating...

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 nervosa and the professionals working alongside them with...

In Food as an Idol: Finding Freedom from Disordered Eating Pamela K. Orgeron, the Author and Editor, a Board Certified Christian Counselor and an Advanced Christian Life Coach combines her education with her life experience as a recovered bulimic to...

Eating disorders are among the most prevalent psychiatric disorders in adolescent and young adult females, affecting approximately 10% of young women. Unfortunately, less than half of those with eating disorders receive treatment, which can be very...

Why a person develops an eating disorder, or why it can feel like an insurmountable task to overcome an eating disorder is often difficult to understand. This book is an in-depth yet easy to read primer on eating disorders. It describes what...

This important new book details a strategic and systemic model for short-term therapy with adolescent sufferers of anorexia nervosa, a psychopathology that seduces patients into starvation as doctors and family look on with increasing desperation...

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Eating Disorders in Young People is a state-of-the-art guide for parents based on enhanced cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT-E), one of the most effective treatments for eating disorders and recently adapted for adolescents...

If you want to recover from your ED but you feel like you will lose control and gain too much weight, keep reading...You're getting ready to start recovery. But instead of feeling hopeful, you find yourself mortified at the possibility of uncontrollably...

This comprehensive text provides practical approaches to adapting empirically supported treatments for eating disorders for clinicians working with patients of diverse backgrounds and presentations, or within non-traditional treatment settings...

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

While many aspects of eating disorders remain a mystery, there is growing evidence that collaboration is an essential element for treatment success. This book emphasises and explains the importance of family involvement as part of a unified team approach...

"Carolyn and Annika bring decades of expertise in the care of patients with Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge Eating Disorder, and the many related atypical and subsyndromal variants. Their clinical wisdom, understanding of the experience of sufferers and those...

Many women today, have a difficult relationship with their body and struggle with food. Why? Food has become our drug of choice. We use it to escape, to hide, to numb, to protect, and to have a sense of control when we feel anything but in...

In this volume, a well-known psychoanalyst, dance therapist, and educational consultant chronicles her clinical work with deeply troubled children who fall between the cracks of our diagnostic and educational systems. These children, who frequently turn...

In A is fo Anorexia:Anorexia Nervosa Explained the complicated relationship between self-starvation, the high of hunger, the addiction to anorexia and its real, but misplaced protective purpose is explored. Em Farrell takes you into her consulting room...

Are you dealing with a picky eater? Then welcome to Broccoli Boot Camp - the informative and accessible resource for parents challenged by selective eaters!This comprehensive guide can be used with children with or without special needs (e.g., autism or...