Books

Take Charge of Your Child's Eating Disorder
A physician's Step by Step Guide to Defeating Anorexia and Bulemi
by Pamela Carlton, M.D., and Deborah Ashin

Recovering from an eating disorder requires a complex combination of psychological, medical, and nutritional approaches. Parents are the constant guardians of their child’s health, but often don’t know the best way to extend treatment from the examining room to the living room.

Take Charge of Your Child’s Eating Disorder is a hands-on, medically based guide that tells parents what they really need to know about eating disorders. As the founder and director of the Adolescent Eating Disorder Parent Education and Support Program at Stanford University, Dr. Pamela Carlton has treated hundreds of children and adolescents with eating disorders and has guided their parents through the maze of eating disorder treatments. This detailed handbook offers:

• Warning signs and diagnostic criteria for different types of eating disorders: anorexia, bulimia, and eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS)

• Information on the hidden eating disorder—Female Athletic Triad

• A step-by-step plan for diagnosis, treatment options, and recovery support

• Detailed advice for putting together and successfully managing a treatment team

• Specific strategies for handling delicate situations and detailed resources for getting the most up-to-date information

• The real story about insurance: what’s covered, what’s not, and how to fight the system

GAINING is one of the first books about eating disorders to connect the latest scientific insights to the personal truth of life before, during, and especially after anorexia and bulimia.

Life Without Ed:
by Jenni Schaefer, Thom Rutledge

A new approach to treating eating disorders Eight million women in the United States suffer from anorexia nervosa and/or bulimia. For these women, the road to recovery is a rocky one. Many succumb to their eating disorders. Life Without Ed offers hope to all those who suffer from these often deadly disorders. For years, author Jennifer Schaefer lived with both anorexia and bulimia. She credits her successful recovery to the technique she learned from her psychologist, Thom Rutledge. This groundbreaking book illustrates Rutledge's technique. As in the author's case, readers are encouraged to think of an eating disorder as if it were a distinct being with a personality of its own. Further, they are encouraged to treat the disorder as a relationship rather than as a condition. Schaefer named her eating disorder Ed; her recovery involved "breaking up" with Ed Shares the points of view of both patient and therapist in this approach to treatment Helps people see the disease as a relationship from which they can distance themselves Techniques to defeat negative thoughts that plague eating disorder patients Prescriptive, supportive, and inspirational, Life Without Ed shows readers how they too can overcome their eating disorders.

The Client Workbook is a state-of-the-art work that will prove very useful both for patients who have Bulimia Nervosa or binge-eating disorder and for the therapists who work with them.

Checking and rechecking ones appearance in the mirror may be more than mere vanity it could be a sign of Body Dysmorphic Disorder. This condition can lead to unnecessary plastic surgery, serious eating disorders, steroid abuse, even suicide. The BDD Workbook offers a proven intervention plan and personal stories, exercises, charts, and worksheets to help readers recognize distorted self-perception and develop a balanced self-image.

This book contains an 8-step program for learning to like your looks.

This bestselling workbook provides interactive exercises that help readers take responsibility for their own wellness and teach essential coping skills, such as tracking and controlling moods, building a support system, increasing self-confidence and self-esteem, avoiding conditions that can exacerbate mood swings, and using relaxation, diet, and exercise to stabilize moods.A major feature of the second edition is a new chapter that details a step-by-step process to help readers develop their own plan for managing symptoms and staying well. The second edition also contains an updated list of resources, including an extensive list of helpful web resources, as well as expanded material on specific treatment strategies and updated resources for mental health professionals.

French Toast for Breakfast is filled with practical exercises, dialogues form actual therapy sessions, straightforward answers to common questions, an in-depth comparison of treatment options, and a look at relapse how to prevent it and what to do if it occurs. It also includes a unique questionnaire to help readers determine which path to peace is best for them.

Focusing on healing the emotional side of eating problems, the first half explains how fear of fat, shame, intimacy, anger, sexuality, and fear of success can contribute to food abuse. The second half discusses a wide range of approaches to overcoming food problems from which readers can create their own healing program, including an examination of the addiction model, the no-diet/no-deprivation approach, psychotherapy modalities, use of medications, and an insightful look at relapse.

Anorexia nervosa, in simple terms, is self-starvation. However, it is a complex problem with intricate roots; and, recovery is best accomplished with a grasp of sound information, specific tasks, and the support of others. All of that is provided in this guidebook, which includes:

• Answers to questions most often asked about anorexia
• Insight from recovered and recovering anorexics
• Monika Ostroffs story of recovery
• Specific things to do that have worked for others
• Information on healthy eating and weight
• Suggestions for how to stay committed
• A special section for parents & loved ones

How women can transform their relationships with food through myths, metaphors & storytelling. By weaving practical insights and exercises through a rich tapestry of multicultural myths, ancient legends, and folktales, Johnston teaches women to free themselves from disordered eating by finding the metaphors hidden in their own life stories. Written in a readable and intimate style, each of the twenty chapters explores a different theme of empowerment and self-discovery. 

Reading this book is an enlightening experience! Weaving a rich tapestry of multicultural myths, ancient legends, and simple folktales, Anita Johnston teaches women how to free themselves from disordered eating by discovering the metaphors that are hidden in their own life stories. A great gift for someone in recovery!

This is the first book to explore why so many of today's men are experiencing problems that have traditionally been considered "women's issues." It offers practical solutions for men who are suffering from anorexia, bulimia, compulsive overeating, excessive exercise, steroid abuse, sexual uncertainty based on appearance, or body dissatisfaction. 

Filled with vignettes from their patients; social and historical perspectives; facts about genetics, masculinity, and nutrition; Holbrook's own personal experience in overcoming anorexia, bulimia, and compulsive exercise; and an overview of treatment approaches, Making Weight is a groundbreaking work that will revolutionize how men think about their bodies.

This is one of the "most-often-ordered" books for friends and family. The authors discuss the psychological and behavioral aspects of eating disorders, pharmacology, and family therapy, with an emphasis on: bringing it out in the open, seeking help, coping with anger and denial, developing a healthier relationship and guidance for making the situation better--now. 

This is a full-sized, informative workbook that offers help for improving body image. With over 40 user-friendly "help sheets," Cash, a respected pioneer of the psychology of appearance and author of more than 100 articles and books--shows how to discover your personal body image, harness knowledge for change, improve "private body talk," practice body-mind relaxation, stop self-defeating behaviors, and "treat your body right!" 

A natural relationship with food unfolds within the context of a soulful life. Using the principles of Taoism to break free from diet-consciousness, this book is inspirational and practical. It offers a life-enriching philosophy to help readers gently and consciously integrate eating experiences into everyday life. Filled with personal exercises, lists, worksheets, and quizzes; an introduction by Thomas Moore.

In this her most recent book, Lindsey Hall introduces 16 extraordinary women, who have overcome food and weight obsessions, as though they are all dining together at a large circular table, taking turns talking about themselves and the lessons they've learned from food. These stories and insights of personal transformation are for all readers who need encouragement to lead a full life of their own. This book is not only about "how to" overcome problems with food but also "why to." Topics include:

• Food, love and intimacy 
• Women united for social change 
• Exercise and meditation 
• Pregnancy and weight change 
• Sexual abuse 
• Hunger and the inner-self