Eating Disorders Books
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)
Brief Group Psychotherapy for Eating Disorders: Inpatient Protocols
In the treatment of Anorexia Nervosa, delivering psychological interventions in a group format can bring unique benefits in addition to those associated with working with patients individually. These... (more)
Treatment Plans and Interventions for Bulimia and Binge-Eating Disorder
Highly practical and clinician friendly, this book provides evidence-based tools for tailoring psychotherapy to the needs of clients with bulimia nervosa or eating disorder not otherwise specified... (more)
Psychological Responses to Eating Disorders and Obesity: Recent and Innovative Work
This is an edited book that brings together many of the most distinguished researchers and clinicians in the field of food misuse. The papers included are drawn from the conferences on psychological... (more)
Treating Bulimia in Adolescents: A Family-Based Approach
See catalogue number 29105 for the paperback edition. An indispensable clinical resource, this groundbreaking book is the first treatment manual to focus specifically on adolescent bulimia nervosa.... (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)
Eating Disorders and Marital Relationships
Anorexia and bulimia are on the increase in the Western world and the disease is now recognised to no longer be only a problem for teenage girls, but older women as well. Most older women either do... (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)
Innovations in Family Therapy for Eating Disorders: Novel Treatment Developments, Patient Insights, and the Role of Carers
'This book is essential reading for any health care professional in this field. The writing is crisp and compelling, superbly edited. The chapters move from history and theory to detailed approaches... (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)
Skills-Based Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder: The New Maudsley Method: Second Edition
Skills-based Learning equips carers with the skills and knowledge needed to support those suffering from an eating disorder, and to help them to break free from the traps that prevent recovery.... (more)
A Short Introduction to Understanding and Supporting Children with Eating Disorders
More and more young people are suffering from eating disorders, but there are many different types and they are often confused, making it difficult to know what support to offer. This easy-to-read... (more)
Ten-Mile Morning: My Journey Through Anorexia Nervosa
Ten-Mile Morning is a true story about a man's battle to overcome his five-year struggle with anorexia nervosa. Written from a painfully honest perspective, Adam Lamparello discusses his past... (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)
Purge: Rehab Diaries
A memoir of the author that documents her battle with an eating disorder. Focusing primarily on her three months in a treatment facility, it reveals several important themes: body image and... (more)
Overcoming Bulimia Self-help Course: A Self-help Practical Manual Using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques: 3-volume set
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)
Beating Eating Disorders Step by Step: A Self-Help Guide for Recovery
People living with eating disorders find it hard to take the step of choosing recovery, often because the disorder has developed as a way of coping with problems or stresses in the their life. This... (more)
Overcoming Your Eating Disorder: A Cognitive-behavioral Therapy Approach for Bulimia Nervosa and Binge-eating Disorder: Workbook
Based on the principles of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, this newly revised and updated workbook will teach the skills needed to overcome an eating disorder and establish healthy habits. Through... (more)
Overcoming Eating Disorders: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach for Bulimia Nervosa and Binge-eating Disorder: Therapist Guide: Second Edition
CBT has been proven the most effective treatment for helping patients improve their eating habits and overcome their disorder. The treatment described is divided into three overlapping phases:... (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)
Eating disorders: Time for change
This collection for therapists and clients presents practical how-to information for the treatment of eating disorders. The authors, clinicians with vast treatment experience, have kept the needs of... (more)
Bulimia Nervosa: A Cognitive Therapy Program For Clients
This manual is written for professionals working with people suffering with bulimia nervosa and for sufferers themselves. It provides a framework for understanding what maintains the disorder and why... (more)
Eating Disorders and Magical Control of the Body: Treatment Through Art Therapy
Opens with an examination of the concept of magical thinking and its relationship to the wider concepts of magic. This type of thinking is then linked to ideas about eating in a variety of settings... (more)
More Than Just a Meal: The Art of Eating Disorders
An exploration of how art therapy can be integrated into a multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of eating disorders. It discusses the creative work and personal accounts of around thirty... (more)
Trauma, dissociation, and impulse dyscontrol in eating disorders:
This volume offers a realistic discussion of the complexity of the treatment of traumatic and dissociative experiences in eating disorders. The authors investigate critical issues concerning... (more)
Queering Nutrition and Dietetics: LGBTQ+ Reflections on Food Through Art
This book presents experiences of LGBTQ+ people relating to food, bodies, nutrition, health, wellbeing, and being queer through critical writing and creative art.
The chapters bring LGBTQ+... (more)
Helping Patients Outsmart Overeating: Psychological Strategies for Doctors and Health Care Providers
Helping Patients Outsmart Overeating, written by an eating disorder therapist and a physician, offers a new paradigm for doctors and health care providers who treat patients with eating and weight... (more)
I Can Beat Anorexia!: Finding the Motivation, Confidence and Skills to Recover and Avoid Relapse
Beating anorexia is much more than a physical process. To overcome the mental and social challenges in recovery, you will need motivation, strength and a positive new mindset. Having recovered from... (more)
Eating Disorders and Obesity: A Comprehensive Handbook: Third Edition
Acclaimed for its encyclopedic coverage, this is the only handbook that synthesizes current knowledge and clinical practices in the fields of both eating disorders and obesity. Like the prior... (more)