Treating Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating 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 explanations of the treatment process, questionnaires, worksheets and practical exercises for the client, which will provide a framework and focus for therapy. The authors use existing techniques, as well as new integrated cognitive and metaco...

"A must-read for anyone ready to start shaking this fat = bad, thin = good obsession. Brown's book can help you love your body now." — BustleFor more than three decades, our quest for thinness has morphed into a relentless obsession with weight and body image. As a science journalist, Harriet Brown has explored this collective longing and fixation from an objective perspective; as a mother, wife, and woman with "weight issues," she has str...

Finding balance in life is a goal many of us strive to achieve. Whether it's through a healthy diet, exercise regimen, state of mind, relationship, or other activity (or all of the above), we spend our days trying to be, and become, our best selves.But what happens when all that focus starts to dominate our lives? When our desire for "perfect health" trumps everything else, perhaps without us even realizing it? What happens when our solution starts becoming the

**Here, collected for the first time, 19 writers describe their eating disorders from the distance of recovery, exposing as never before the anorexic's self-enclosed world.“This anthology lends remarkable texture to a subject that has been too often sensationalized and oversimplified.” —**The New York TimesTaking up issues including depression, genetics, sexuality, sports, religion, fashion and family, these essays examine the role anorexia plays i...

I want to thank you for checking out the book, “Stress Eating: How to Handle the Stress Triggers that Lead to Emotional Eating and Binge Eating & Beat It Now!” This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to successfully free yourself from stress, stop emotional eating, and lead a better life. This book also contains useful information regarding the symptoms and causes of stress, as well as how it affects your life. It also discusses how stress impacts your min...

Margo Maine spares no target in this straightforward and entertaining expose. Loaded with facts and inspirational quotes, this is an activist's guide for parents, educators, therapists, patients, former patients, or anyone who wants to fight against the forces that prevent women from being comfortable in their own bodies. Included are extensive Strategies for Change with ideas for personal and cultural growth, as well as resources with addresses, organizations, and recommended reading.

The standard reference for practitioners, researchers, and students, this acclaimed work brings together internationally recognized experts from diverse mental health, medical, and allied health care disciplines. Contributors review established and emerging theories and findings; probe questions of culture, gender, health, and disorder; and present evidence-based assessment, treatment, and prevention approaches for the full range of body image concerns. Capturing the richness and complexit...

Do you feel that one of your family members or friends is suffering from an eating disorder? Or has anyone told you that you may have an eating disorder? If the answer to any one of these questions is yes, then this book is just the reference and guide that you need. This book shall help you gain a better insight about the problem and answer the following questions:How to identify if you or anyone you know is suffering from an eating disorder?What are the risk facto...

Of all the books written about eating disorder, only one looks at what the Bible says about this all-too-common struggle in the lives of young women. Hungry Souls digs deeply into God's Word to uncover the origins of eating disorder in history, sins that contribute to anorexia and bulimia, prophecies relevant to eating disorder, the relationship between eating disorder and sexuality, an anorexic woman in the Bible, why eating disorder is prevalent in America and the West, the correlation b...

Bariatric surgery plays an important role in the treatment of obesity; in this comprehensive resource the worldwide leaders of the field provide the most up-to-date information on the psychosocial issues that affect their patients. Included is an overview and history of surgical procedures, complete with illustrations, practical advice on topics such as physical activity and nutritional care after surgery, and essential information that allows clinicians to assist their clients as much as ...

Bulimia is an eating disorder, the term "bulimia" is derived from the greek meaning bous "ox" and limos "hunger" and literally means "ox hunger". It is a disease only apparently opposite to anorexia, with which in fact has many similarities. Bulimia consists essentially in an uncontrollable need to ingest large quantities of food that, though, you try to neutralize through opposite behavior.

Ten-Mile Morning is a true story about a man’s battle to overcome his five-year struggle with anorexia nervosa. Written from a painfully honest perspective, Adam Lamparello discusses his past addictions, depression, anxiety, and the emptiness that arose from his lack of self-esteem. This moving memoir details the author’s struggle to gain a sense of control and empowerment through dramatic weight loss, starvation, compulsive exercise, and purging. Ultimately, however, this is a story of ho...