Self-Help : Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders For Dummies serves as a comprehensive, practical guide for sufferers and their loved ones covering anorexia, bulimia, and other disorders/syndromes such as binging and night eating syndrome. It shows readers how to access the lates more...

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In this second edition of the Handbook of Eating Disorders every chapter has been rewritten. This was necessary to reflect not only the many advances in knowledge and understanding of eating disorders, but also the advances in communication between clinical and academic branches, and between countries. The second edition embraces this more coherent, integrated approach. more...

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A unique 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. more...

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Notso Fatso takes a whole new approach to dieting. Probably the only diet book to call a spade a spade and the reader Fatso. It's funny, entertaining and highly controversial but the diet works ... well it did for Walter. more...

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Jennifer Hendricks was the valedictorian of her high school class but spent most of her last five years confined in hospitals. She weighed just forty-five pounds when she died at age twenty-five. . Gordon Hendricks , a retired CPA, has received several awards for excerpts from this book and continues to write for magazines and syndicated newspapers, including the Rocky Mountain News and Steamboat Today . He won third place in the Best of the West fiction contest for his story ''The Prize.'' He lives with his wife in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. more...

Price: $19.95