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Body Image, Second Edition
Guilford Publications 2011; US$ 35.00The 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... more...
The Psychology of Eating and Drinking
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 36.95Our fascination with eating and drinking behaviors and their causes has resulted in a huge industry of food-related pop science. Every bookstore, every magazine stand, every grocery store checkout counter is filled with publications about how to get your child to eat vegetables, how to tell if someone has an eating disorder or, most commonly, how... more...
Binge Breaker!(TM)
Grand Central Publishing 2000; US$ 9.99Binge eating, eating more food than feels comfortable, is a problem for more than half of all overweight Americans. Binge eating is not bulimia, and while many do it -- over the sink, late at night, or in front of the refrigerator -- yo-yo dieters are especially susceptible. Renowned diet expert Dr. Peter M. Miller reveals the proven six-step program... more...
Eating Disorders in Women and Children
CRC Press 2000; US$ 139.95Intended for workers in the fields of health care, education, counseling, or athletics, this text presents information on the etiology and treatment of eating disorders. The volume's 24 contributions, written by health educators, psychologists, nurses, sports health specialists, neuropsychiatrists, biomedical researchers, dance therapists, and othe more...
Gaining
Grand Central Publishing 2007; US$ 9.99Aimee Liu, who wrote Solitaire , the first-ever memoir of anorexia, in 1979, returns to the subject nearly three decades later and shares her story and those of the many women in her age group of life beyond this life-altering ailment. She has extensively researched the origins and effects of both anorexia and bulimia, and dispels many commonly held... more...
Fed Up!
McGraw-Hill 2002; US$ 21.95This volume is aimed at the masses who are making themselves miserable and unhealthy by dieting. Dr Wendy Oliver-Pyatt discusses this problem's devastating effects on people's physical and mental health, and offers a compassionate perspective as someone who has suffered from an eating disorder. more...
Mindful Eating 101: A Guide to Healthy Eating in College and Beyond
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 21.95In this book, Dr. Susan Albers, brings her unique approach to college students, their parents, and college staff. Using the principles of mindfulness, Dr. Albers presents a guide to healthy eating and self acceptance that will help readers navigate the weight obsessed, diet crazed, high pressured, fast food saturated college environment, establishing... more...
Overcoming Body Image Disturbance
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 42.95People with eating disorders often exhibit serious misconceptions about their own body image. Overcoming Body Image Disturbance provides a treatment programme (piloted by the authors) for people with eating disorders who have a negative body image. The manual offers advice for therapists, enabling them to deliver the programme, as well as practical... more...
Obesity Management in Family Practice
Springer 2006; US$ 44.95Helps the physician to effectively care for a chronic recurrent disease. This book takes the evidence-based science and transforms treating obesity into a practical, time-sensitive process that is supported by logical recommendations that every family physician can use to help obese patients. more...
Going Hungry
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.95Here, 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. Taking up issues including depression, genetics, sexuality, sports, religion, fashion and family, these essays examine the role anorexia plays in a young person's search for direction.... more...









