Eating Disorders Books
Special Problems in Managing Eating Disorders
A group of experienced clinicians and researchers examine some of the most troublesome and challenging problems which clinicians who treat patients with eating disorders face. Illustrated with case... (more)
From fasting saints to anorexic girls: The history of self-starvation
Down the centuries self-starvation has taken many morbid guises. This story culminates in the 19th century labelling of anorexia nervosa, a condition which has since attracted a host of theories and... (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)
When your child has an eating disorder: A step-by-step workbook for parents and other caregivers
A hands-on workbook that shows parents how to intervene when they suspect their child has an eating disorder. The book shows how to recognize, confront and conquer the disorder, presenting it as a... (more)
Comparative Treatments of Eating Disorders
This volume addresses the treatment of eating disorders from the perspective of nine experts, each representing a specific treatment modality from psychoanalysis, cognitive-behavioural therapy,... (more)
Eating Disorders: A Multi-Professional Approach
This text aims to provide the reader with a wide and in-depth understanding of the conditions of Anorexia and Bulimia. It brings together a range of perspectives and includes theoretical and clinical... (more)
The Thin Book: Hypnotherapy Trance Scripts for Weight Management
This collection of discrete hypnotherapy scripts is designed to aid clinicians in helping their clients deal with the complex, often lifelong issue of weight management. The scripts can also be used... (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)
Anorexia Nervosa: Patient's Log Book
This log book brings together the in-patient version originally designed by Professor Arthur Crisp and Dr Kingsley Norton for use by people undergoing treatment in the Anorexia Nervosa Unit at... (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)
Eating Disorders, Food and Occupational Therapy
This text presents a detailed examination of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, food and occupational therapy, and offers a comprehensive resource for all those with an academic or professional... (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)
Anorexics on Anorexia
In this work, recovering sufferers of anorexia nervosa describe in their own words their personal experiences of this illness, providing not only support for fellow sufferers, but also useful... (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)
Culture and weight consciousness
The author looks at the recent emergence of eating disorders in non-Western cultures and links it to the same socio-cultural model of causation as found in the Western world. This leads her to... (more)
Clinician's Guide: Getting Better Bit(e) by Bit(e): Survival Kit for Sufferers of Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorders
The publication of Getting Better Bit(e) by Bit(e), written by two eating disorder specialists at London's world-famous Maudsley Hospital, was a milestone in the treatment of bulimia. For the first... (more)
Yoga for Positive Embodiment in Eating Disorder Prevention and Treatment
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... (more)
An Integrative Approach to Treating Eating Disorders: 9 Foundational Skills for a Lasting Recovery
An Integrative Approach to Treating Eating Disorders walks therapists through how to effectively resolve the most common yet nuanced struggles that clients with disordered eating face on a daily... (more)
Understanding and Managing Emotional Eating: A Psychological Skills Workbook
This highly accessible therapy workbook is designed to help individuals who are engaged in weight management and obesity treatments improve their relationship with food and manage their emotional... (more)
Embodiment and Eating Disorders: Theory, Research, Prevention, and Treatment
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... (more)
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
'I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she... (more)
Food, Glorious, Food: Transcending Obesity through the Symbology of Freud and Jung
In the last century food has become a multibillion-dollar industry, resulting in the world’s population becoming fatter and fatter. This has resulted in rapidly growing cases of obesity, and its... (more)
Body Neutrality: Finding Acceptance and Liberation in a Body-Focused Culture
This practical, accessible book teaches readers how to practice healthy body image habits and let go of an emphasis on body image through research, activities, and personal stories.
Body... (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)
Medical Crises in Eating Disorders
Medical Crises in Eating Disorders provides medical clinicians as well as others with an acute awareness of the critical and potentially lethal medical outcomes they may have to face when managing... (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)