Eating Disorders Books
Living with Eating Disorders
Eating disorders involve serious disturbances in eating behavior, such as extreme and unhealthy reduction of food intake or severe overeating, as well as feelings of distress about body shape or... (more)
Breaking the Spell of Binge-Eating: A Road to Balance in Your Life
Joanna Kortink fashions a truly different technique in treating an array of eating disorders. Her unique approach combines psychotherapy with creative expression, body training and natural medicine.... (more)
Bulimics on Bulimia
Thousands suffer from bulimia secretly and in silence. They are never diagnosed and their story goes untold. "Bulimics on Bulimia" is a collection of accounts by people who are living with the... (more)
Demystifying Anorexia Nervosa: An Optimistic Guide to Understanding and Healing
Emotionally and physically devastating, anorexia nervosa is the third most common chronic illness in teenage girls, striking one in every two hundred (boys only make up 10% of all cases). And while... (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)
Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Eating Disorders
This book provides the first comprehensive guide to the practice of "enhanced" cognitive behavior therapy (CBT-E), the latest version of the leading empirically supported treatment for eating... (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)
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)
Inside Anorexia: The Experiences of Girls and Their Families
Inside Anorexia describes the different experiences and challenges faced by teenage girls with anorexia and their families. It demonstrates that the starting point for understanding anorexia must be... (more)
What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Treating Eating and Weight Issues
Many books deal with obesity, anorexia, or bulimia. Yet, until now, no book has addressed those who have mild eating issues that do not fall into extreme categories of starvation or gluttony. Here,... (more)
Treating Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating: An Integrated Metacognitive and Cognitive Therapy Manual
Explains how cognitive therapy can be used to treat those suffering from bulimia nervosa. The manual provides a step-by-step treatment guide, incorporating a number of case examples offering detailed... (more)
Assessment of Eating Disorders
Concise and practical yet comprehensive, this unique book provides a clear framework and a range of up-to-date tools for assessing patients with eating disorders. Leading clinicians and researchers... (more)
The Anorexic Self: A Personal, Political Analysis of a Diagnostic Discourse
Traditionally, women's eating disorders are thought to be strongly influenced by media images idealizing a normative thin female body. Taking a different approach, "The Anorexic Self" critically... (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)
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)
Next to Nothing: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager's Experience with an Eating Disorder
More than simple cases of dieting gone awry, eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia are among the most fatal of mental illnesses, responsible for more deaths each year than any other... (more)
Clinical Manual of Eating Disorders
Providing sound therapeutic advice based on current research and clinical practice, this book includes detailed discussions of various aspects of assessment and treatment and features up-to-date... (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 Golden Cage: The Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa
Often quoting her patients descriptions of their own experience of illness and recovery, Hilde Bruch described the relentless pursuit of thinness and the search for superiority in self-denial that... (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)
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)
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)
Coping with Compulsive Eating
Many of enjoy collapsing in front of the TV with a doughnut at the end of a long day, or grabbing a MacDonalds after an exhausting shopping trip, but just when does comfort eating become dangerous?... (more)
Integrated Treatment of Eating Disorders: Beyond the Body Betrayed
A prominent psychiatrist in the field, Kathryn J. Zerbe builds on her landmark work in "The Body Betrayed" to provide a comprehensive approach to the outpatient treatment of eating disorders. A... (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)
Therapeutic Groups for Obese Women: A Group Leader's Handbook
This book provides a practical, comprehensive guide to the group treatment of obesity. It is derived from a 5 year research project and draws upon elements of CBT and a variety of other counselling... (more)
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)