Books

GAINING: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders

GAINING: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders is the first book to "connect the dots," painting a complete picture of the interpersonal, cultural, and biochemical forces that cause – and must be addressed in order to cure – anorexia and bulimia nervosa. Drawing on her own life history, cutting-edge research, and extensive interviews with others who have been recovered for up to thirty years, Aimee Liu offers a retrospective view of life before, during, and after active eating disorders. The stories in this book make it clear that eating disorders have little to do with food or weight -- and everything to do with personality, fear, and shame. They are distress signals that can occur at any age and often recur during periods of stress and loss. Gaining translates these signals into vital insights for individuals and families who have struggled with eating disorders, and for parents who want to safeguard their children.

"This is a ground-breaking work that's a must-read for anyone who has struggled with food or weight but didn't quite understand why." ~ Lori Gottlieb,
Author of STICK FIGURE: A DIARY OF MY FORMER SELF

"This book is the most sensitive, insightful, and beautifully crafted connection I have seen of personal experience with what scientists know about eating disorders. It is rich in emotion, understanding of human interaction, and lessons on culture, weight, and eating." Kelly D. Brownell, Ph.D.
Director, Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders, Yale University

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Cardboard: A woman left for dead

Cardboard is an account of one woman's life-threatening eating disorder and her eventual hard-won recovery. Author Fiona Place has created Lucy, a narrator who is capable of taking the reader inside the dark and often puzzling experience of anorexia nervosa. Ashen, thin and with a thready heartbeat, Lucy cannot understand what is wrong with her. The tour leader decides she is homesick. And lying on her bed, she is left to fend for herself. Alone in her tiny hotel room Lucy wonders what she should do? Is she sick or just homesick? Reluctantly, she decides to fly to an English speaking country. And to her embarrassment is taken off the plane in a wheelchair. Hospitalized, she undergoes a range of treatments - some harsh, some ineffective, others insightful and intelligent. An astute observer, Lucy invites the reader to make sense of what it means to be ill. To understand why eating is so impossible. And as she fleshes out her journey towards a full-bodied and robust recovery, demands her distress be understood. Demands it be put into her own words. When it was first published Cardboard was recognized as a compelling portrait and one of the first books to understand the importance of the role of narrative in the recovery process. Similarly today when much of the focus on eating disorders concerns decoding the genetics and biology of the condition, this novel continues to provide an understanding of the individual's affective experience and the socio-cultural context in which it occurs.  

"An intellectual and psychological tour de force."
Dr Liz Ferrier, Advisory Editor, m/c - a journal of media and culture, Queensland University

"One of the best novels ever to be published in Australia."
Amanda Lohrey, novelist

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Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life

(McGraw-Hill) by Jenni Schaefer

Don’t Battle an Eating Disorder Forever—Recover from It Completely

Jenni Schaefer and Ed (eating disorder) are no longer on speaking terms, not even in her most difficult moments. In her bestseller, Life Without Ed, Jenni learned to treat her eating disorder as a relationship, not a condition — enabling her to break up with Ed.

In Goodbye Ed, Hello Me Jenni shows you that being fully recovered is not just about breaking free from destructive behaviors with food and having a healthy relationship with your body; it also means ?nding joy and peace in your life.

Combining Jenni’s signature personal advice and unfailing encouragement along with valuable exercises you can do as you read, Goodbye Ed, Hello Me will give you the prescriptive tools to take the ?nal steps in divorcing your Ed completely.

Lynn Grefe, CEO of the National Eating Disorders Association, says, "Jenni may someday be named the trend-setter for the miraculous word "recovered.’"

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Body Image Workbook: An 8-step Program for Learning to Like Your Looks

(1997) Thomas Cash

An exceptionally helpful book written by one of the top authorities in the USA on body image issues. Used by clinicians frequently to help their clients address body image concerns, weight obsessions, and other body fixations that are harmful to the individual. A must read for anyone seeking to build a better body image!

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Dying to be thin: Understanding and Defeating Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia - A Practical Lifesaving Guide

(2001 updated) Sacker, I. M., & Zimmer, M. (Warner Books)

A highly regarded book in the field of eating disorder treatment. Useful to both eating disorder sufferers and family members. Understandable and inspirational.
A must read for anyone wanting a practical guide on eating disorder recovery!

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Overcoming Overeating

(1998) Jane R. Hirschmann, & Carol H. Munter (Random House)

 Interesting guide to overcoming overeating by listening to one's body and trusting hunger and fullness sensations. Hailed by many as the essential read for those seeking to give up dieting forever and make peace with food and their body.

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100 Questions and Answers about Anorexia Nervosa

By Sari Fine Shepphird, Ph.D.
(Jones & Bartlett, 2009)
(Approx. 270 pages, paperback)

An invaluable resource for understanding anorexia nervosa, this book is a straightforward, reader-friendly guide that answers key questions about the eating disorder, including: What is anorexia nervosa? What causes anorexia nervosa? What are available treatments? Do people with anorexia get better? Where can I go for help? And much more! Patients, their families and loved ones, as well as interested professionals will gain a wealth of knowledge from the clear answers provided in this empowering resource. Written by a psychologist and eating disorders specialist with 20 years of experience in the eating disorders field. Eye-opening patient commentary is also included.

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Eating Disorders: A Handbook of Christian Treatment

New Treatment Guide for Eating Disorders Available to Healthcare Professionals

Remuda Programs for Eating Disorders, the nation's leading and largest inpatient treatment center for women and girls suffering from eating disorders, has published Eating Disorders: A Handbook of Christian Treatment, a comprehensive guide to the mysterious world of eating disorders. The handbook explains eating disorders, along with proper assessment and intervention, across the bio-psycho-social-spiritual continuum. It was written by a multidisciplinary team to be of value to a broad range of healthcare and pastoral professionals, practitioners, educators and students. The handbook offers state-of-the-art, scientifically valid knowledge of anorexia and bulimia nervosa, integrated carefully with non-denominational Christianity.

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Life Without Ed:

Jenni had been in an abusive relationship with Ed for far too long. Ed's name comes from the initials E.D. - as in eating disorder. He controlled Jenni's life, distorted her self-image, and tried to physically harm her throughout their long affair. Then Jenni met psychotherapist and author Thom Rutledge. He taught her how to treat her eating disorder as a relationship, not a condition. By thinking of her eating disorder as a unique personality separate from her own, Jenni was able to break up with Ed once and for all.

Inspiring, compassionate, and filled with practical exercises to help you break up with your own personal E.D., Life Without Ed provides new hope for the disorders that plague millions of women and young girls. Beginning with Jenni's "divorce" from Ed, this supportive, lifesaving book combines a patient's insights and experiences with a therapist's prescriptions for success to help you live a healthier, happier life without Ed.

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When Your Child Has an Eating Disorder

by Abagail Natenshon

A Step-by-Step Workbook for Parents and Other Caregivers. It educates and supports you, the parent, as you learn to support and heal your child. A must-read for every parent whose child may be dealing with an eating disorder, or is susceptible to developing one.

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Eating With Your Anorexic

by Laura Collins(McGraw-Hill, 2005). Foreword by Dr. James Lock, Director of the Eating Disorders Program at Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. Inspired by the Maudsley approach, the Collins family learned to treat heir daughter's anorexia nervosa with a medicine universally available: food. Plus some love, common sense, and a few laughs.

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The Rules of "Normal" Eating - A Commonsense Approach for Dieters, Overeaters, Undereaters, Emotional Eaters, and Everyone in Between!

by Karen R. Koenig, LICSW, M.Ed., is for anyone who wants to improve their relationship with food and reach and maintain a comfortable, healthy weight. It teaches the four basic rules that "normal" eaters use every day naturally and instinctively to enjoy food without being a slave to the scale. Written in every day language with humor and compassion and using a cognitive-behavioral approach, The Rules is a comprehensive guide to ending food obsession, chronic dieting, binge-eating, and yo-yoing weights.

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Doing What Works: an Integrative System for the Treatment of Eating disorders from Diagnosis to Recovery

by Abigail H. Natenshon, MA, LCSW, GCFP (NASW Press November,2009)

Doing What Works: an Integrative System for the Treatment of Eating Disorders from Diagnosis to Recovery combines evidence-based research and treatment protocols with the art of the quality therapeutic relationship to provide integrative and practicable applications for the treatment of eating disorders. This reader-friendly book is the first of its kind to offer readers a coherent and sequential system for approaching and successfully managing these complex cases from start to finish.

Hope, Help, & Healing for Eating Disorders and Empty-A Story of Anorexia

By Dr. Jantz

Dr. Jantz writes on his Whole-Person Approach to dealing with eating disorders and that a person with an eating disorder needs love and acceptance. Christie Pettit shares her personal struggle and victory over Anorexia.

You Are Not Alone, Volume 2

The Book of Companionship for Women with Eating Disorders

You Are Not Alone, Volume 2 (plus Companion CD) by eating disorder survivors Andrea Roe and Shannon Cutts, is an inspiring collection of personal recovery stories, poems, artwork, and song lyrics by women who are either in recovery or fully recovered from an eating disorder. Also included is the You Are Not Alone Companion CD filled with healing songs by women whose lives have been touched by eating disorders.

What People Are Saying About You Are Not Alone, Volume 2:
"To know that others have struggled just as much and that they cannot 'only' survive, but thrive and live a better life, is truly inspiring." -- Ashley P from Canada is in recovery from an eating disorder.

"Read these stories and be encouraged; you will see the journey of healing can be made! Andrea brings us all together so we remember we are not alone. There is Hope." --Gregory L. Jantz, Ph.D. Bestselling Author, Speaker, Therapist, and Founder of The Center for Counseling and Health Resources.

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