A is for Anorexia: Anorexia Nervosa Explained

Em Farrell has worked as a psychotherapist with eating disordered patients for over 25 years. She originally set up a Centre for Women with Eating Problems in London and used CBT and massage to help them. This book takes you deep into the troubled mind and body of an anorexic. It explains why someone becomes anorexic, what their anorexia does to them and how to help them out of it. It will benefit parents, friends, lovers of anorexics and sufferers themselves; if they want to change. It explains this apparently inexplicable and sometimes deadly disorder.

For parents: learn how to understand your daughter, strengthen yourself and help her. For friends and lovers of anorexics: learn about the beliefs that anorexics have about themselves and what is going on in their body and their minds, so that you can support them and help them get better. For counsellors and psychotherapists: learn the facts about anorexia, both physical and emotional, so that you have the courage to work sufferers and their deeply seated denial. For sufferers: discover an alternative view of yourself. If you have anorexia you can recover and have a better life.