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Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia: How to Help

This is intended for helpers and carers of all kinds who may say “How can I help - how can I be sure my efforts won't make matters worse?”.  The authors make extensive use of their own experiences with clients to illustrate the dilemma of people with eating disorders and those trying to help.  This book describes the minute steps involved in providing the kind of help that truly enables people with anorexia or bulimia to leave their eating disordered lifestyle behind.  It has references at the end of each chapter, and an extensive index. Click here to order.

Anorexia and Bulimia in the Family: One Parent's Practical Guide to Recovery

‘Anorexia and Bulimia in the Family’ describes living with an eating disorder from a parent and carer’s point of view, but it is much more than a personal narrative. Alongside a very frank account of daily life, Gráinne Smith draws on her own experience of caring for her daughter, to provide practical strategies for coping with the day-to-day problems that accompany an eating disorder, all of which are discussed in an open and down to earth way. The book covers many aspects of eating disorders with great insight, and is especially good at encouraging carers to care for themselves; it is informative, challenging, comforting and above all, empowering.  For parents and carers this book will be invaluable. Click here to order.

Anorexia Nervosa: A Survival Guide for Families, Friends and Sufferers

Aims to allay fears voiced by people with anorexia nervosa. Includes an overview of anorexia nervosa, patient and family perspectives and guidelines for professionals. Click here to order.

Anorexics on Anorexia

Rosemary Shelley, herself recovered from anorexia, has gathered together contributions from seventeen women and two men who are still struggling with the illness.  The accounts deal with the way the illness developed, how it affected the families involved, treatment received/available, why they think the illness began, and their situation when writing.  The book will give insights to those caring for people with anorexia and support for others with the illness.  A list of contacts for support is given. Click here to order.

Beating eating disorders step by step

This is the latest volume from Anna Paterson.  The book is designed to help those contemplating recovery and is particularly suitable to those suffering from Anorexia.  It shares a wealth of information on aspects of Anorexia and is part writers comments and experiences and part useful exercises.  Anna takes the reader along her personal path of recovery. Easy to read, easy to understand, a book that you can dip in and out of. Click here to order.

Bulimia Nervosa and Binge-eating: A Guide to Recovery

A guide for people with eating disorders, their friends and family. Defines binge-eating and bulimia nervosa, their causes and effects, physical complications, and treatment available. Click here to order

Boys Get Anorexia Too: Coping with Male Eating Disorders

This book is immensely reassuring to any parent who has experienced at first hand the problems that a young boy already caught up in the maelstrom of adolescence can both experience and cause when anorexia arrives. 

In short useful chapters Jenny looks at a range of topics that includes amongst many others; What triggers anorexia in boys; The effects on the family; Treatment and self help/options; Other eating disorders affecting boys and the trials and tribulations of returning to normal life.

Any parent or carer concerned about a boy who may be developing or has already developed an eating disorder will find this book useful and supportive even when it is talking about the most difficult problems that affect sufferers and their families. Click here to order.

Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder: The New Maudsley Method

Equips carers with the skills and knowledge needed to support and encourage those suffering from an eating disorder, and to help them to break free from the traps that prevent recovery. Through a co-ordinated approach, this book offers information alongside detailed techniques and strategies which aim to improve professionals and home carers ability to build continuity and consistency of support for their loved ones. Click here to order.

Conquering Anorexia: The Route to Recovery

The book outlines in diary style a young woman’s struggle through the early years before, during and also the treatments to overcome, anorexia. She describes her personal feelings and thoughts in great detail. The book also includes self-help ideas, strategies and exercises that helped both Clare and other sufferers. This is not a reference book so is probably not appropriate for professional, but is an excellent read for sufferers, carers, friends and families. Click here to order

Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison

For all who suffer from this painful illness, or are supporting someone who is depressed.  “Depression is the experience of a terrible isolation, of being alone in a prison.”  Dorothy Rowe shows how we create our own depression and how, since we created it, we are free to change it.  While describing how hard it is to live with a depressed person, the author points out that a family can, wittingly or unwittingly,  prevent a person from finding a way out of their prison. Click here to order.

Eating and Weight Disorders

Including the most up-to-date research, Carlos Grilo provides a balanced and authoritative overview of current thinking in the fields of eating disorders and obesity with broad yet in-depth coverage of the areas. This highly readable book is an indispensable resource to students and professionals in clinical psychology, health psychology, and psychiatry. Click here to order.

Eating Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence

This fully revised edition offers a distillation of current information in the younger population, and contains brand new chapters on areas of research and practice such as: eating disorders and the brain nutrition and refeeding motivational approaches. "Eating Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence" offers the reader knowledge, perception and understanding of this fascinating but challenging patient group. It has both a clinical and research focus and will be an essential text for a wide range of professionals, as well as being readable for parents of children suffering from eating disorders. Click here to order.

Eating Disorders: A Parents' Guide

This very popular book written for parents of children with eating disorders, has been revised and updated.  It is written by two well-known experts who describe the different eating disorders of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, selective eating, restrictive eating, food phobia, food avoidance, emotional disorder and compulsive overeating.  This sympathetic and reassuring book offers guidance on how to decide if your child has one of these disorders and how to get help. Click here to order.

Eating disorders: the facts

This is a new and considerably revamped issue of a popular book for sufferers and their families and includes specific information about pregnancy and birth as well as another new chapter for family and friends. Whilst the emphasis is on sufferers and their families many issues are looked at from a professional treatment point of view. Click here to order.

Eating Disorders: The Path to Recovery

This short and highly readable book is written with compassion and insight, and conveys the belief that recovery is within reach. I read it in one sitting!

Dr Kate Middleton is Director of Anorexia and Bulimia care and has a professional background in medicine and psychology with a specialist interest in eating disorders.

She draws on her experience of working with sufferers, illustrating her points with case histories throughout. Her explanation of the links between eating disorders and certain personality traits and patterns of thinking was clearly explained and I found the idea of using "road diagrams" as an aid in the process of change, for example to try to reduce anxiety of increasing variety in diet, particularly practical and helpful. She is realistic however and does not underestimate the time and effort required in the process of recovery.

While the book "speaks" directly to sufferers, it will be very valuable to their families and friends and anyone interested in a fuller understanding of eating disorders and the various stages involved in recovery. Click here to order.

EDNOS: Eating Disorders Not Otherwise Specified

This book brings together contributions from many of the leading researchers and practitioners in the field of eating disorders and presents the topic of EDNOS from a range of perspectives including the clinical, the epidemiological, the nosological, the biological and the trans-cultural. This comprehensive summary of the subject of EDNOS demonstrates that by investigating the nature, cause and treatment of these disorders, we can throw light on the classification and nature of eating disorders as a whole. It will be of great interest to all professionals in the field of eating disorders. Click here to order.

Feeling Good About the Way You Look

"Feeling Good about the Way You Look" helps men and women, with exaggerated concerns about their appearance, break free from the mirror and get their lives back on track. Self-assessment tools help readers understand their problems and decide whether they should be evaluated for body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), a severely distressing level of dissatisfaction with one's body. Step-by-step guidelines teach them to overcome discouraging thoughts, curtail obsessive appearance rituals, and see themselves realistically. With a chapter for friends and family members who suspect a loved one may be struggling with body image issues. Click here to order.

Feel the fear and do it anyway

If you see yourself as a “blob of negativity” and would like to change, this book with its practical exercises could start you on the way.  We are all afraid at some time of our lives.  Some people seem to feel afraid most of the time.  Fear can be paralysing, or it can be energising depending on how we use it, or allow it to use us.  The author believes that fear can be conquered through re-educating our thinking about ourselves and how we cope with whatever life hands us.  Click here to order.

Getting Better Bit(e) by Bit(e): Clinician's Guide

The authors of Getting Better Bit(e) by Bit(e) have now written this Clinician's Guide, to help health care professionals maximize the benefit that patients obtain from the self-help book. Based on the authors' wide-ranging experience of treating eating disorder patients, it provides a step-by-step account of how the chapters in Getting Better Bit(e) by Bit(e) can be used to ameliorate various aspects of bulimics' difficulties, with examples drawn from real patients' case histories. Particular emphasis is given to the problem of motivating patients who are reluctant to change their behavior, using Miller and Rollnick's motivational interviewing approach. Click here to order.

Getting Better Bit(e) by Bit(e): Survival Kit for Sufferers of Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorders

A self-help manual for those who are now ready to work at giving up being bulimic, dealing with the challenges of on-going life such as assertiveness, and relationships. Click here to order

How to Cope with Bulimia

Discusses signs and symptoms of bulimia, the physical effects, personal factors, recovery, as well as precautions and preventative measures.Click here to order.

Little Steps: Surviving Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa

This is a book that clearly outlines the disturbing problems and difficulties experienced by sufferers and the people around them, and the struggle to recover especially when faced by the erratic and inappropriate mental health services many people experience. The book includes Katherines own experiences as well as those of a number of other sufferers. It underlines the fact that despite these difficulties recovery is possible. Click here to order

Mindful Eating 101

The aim of this book is to help the reader empower herself to make mindful choices about what, when, where, and how to eat in order to avoid the dreaded "freshman fifteen" without falling into dangerous patterns that could lead to the development of an eating disorder. Written in a light, engaging style that should appeal to college students, parents, counselors and college staff alike, this book has the potential to help people change their eating habits for the better. More than a new diet book or collection of superficial self-affirmations, this book gets at issues such as the importance of making informed choices and the value of self acceptance and good health. Click here to order.

Overcoming Anorexia Nervosa

Originally developed as a manual for patients with anorexia nervosa, this is the first anorexia self-help book based on cognitive behavioral therapy. Click here to order.

Overcoming Binge Eating

An authoritative self help book for anyone who is working alone or with a therapist to recover from binge eating disorder. Click here to order

Self-Harm Behavior and Eating Disorders

This book is designed to provide professionals with the information and tools they need to treat patients who have eating disorders and engage in self-harm beahviours. Grouped into four major sections these chapters examine the co-occurance of self harm behaviour from a variety of perspectives. Click here to order.

Self-help Approaches for Obesity and Eating Disorders

With contributions from leading authorities, this timely professional resource critically examines available self-help treatments for weight problems and obesity, binge eating disorder, bulimia nervosa, and body image disturbances. Practical pointers are offered for guiding clients or patients toward safe, effective approaches that provide the right level of care, from fully independent strategies to treatments with higher levels of professional involvement. Chapters review the strengths and limitations of commercial diets, exercise programs, workbooks, support groups, Internet resources, adaptations of behavioral models, and more, including strategies for long-term maintenance of weight loss. Special topics include night eating syndrome, childhood obesity, and coping with weight-related discrimination. Click here to order.

The Best Little Girl in the World

This novel, aimed at teenagers, is about a young girl who becomes increasingly unhappy with herself and feels that the solution is to lose weight.  Meals become something to avoid and gradually she turns to a dangerous obsession - anorexia nervosa.  The story follows her struggles and battles with her family and therapists.  After continuing to lose weight, as an out patient she is taken into hospital and gradually sees a life without anorexia.  The book has a simple but interesting plot and may help the young sufferer, sibling or friend have a better understanding of the emotions and feelings as well as the consequences that can arise while suffering from an eating disorder. Click here to order.

The Invisible Man

Increasingly boys and men are suffering with eating disorders and related body image problems. Some have full-blown conditions such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating, compulsive exercising or bigorexia. Others are distressed by slightly lesser degrees of disordered eating or over-exercise and seek ways of overcoming their problems. "The Invisible Man" applies the latest research to produce a practical, problem-focused self-help manual for men with eating disorders and body image problems. Click here to order.

Thin

A grippingly honest account of life with anorexia nervosa, "A Shape of My Own" is Grace's hearbreaking, shocking and, finally, inspirational memoir. An extraordinary story, it is also a common one - is there a woman in the western world who has a normal relationship with food? It is a compulsive read, essential for anyone hoping to understand more about eating disorders and overcoming addiction. Click here to order.

Treating Bulimia in Adolescents: A Family-Based Approach

The authors draw on their proven approach to treating anorexia nervosa in the family context and adapt it to the unique needs of this related yet distinct clinical population. Evidence-based strategies are presented for helping the whole family collaborate to bring dysfunctional eating behaviors under control, while also addressing co-occurring psychological problems and parent - child relationship conflicts. Highly practical, the book shows exactly how to carry out this time-limited therapy and what to do when problems arise. Special features include annotated session transcripts and answers to frequently asked questions. Click here to order.

The Silent Struggle

Most people know someone whose life has been affected by anorexia, but not many know the suffering it inflicts. Recovery is a steep path, but when the illness is coupled wit history of abuse, that path has thorns.

Sister Marie Therese grapples with both issues in this powerful, personal account of her struggle to be free of illness. Sexually abused from early childhood, she became anorexic at eleven. Dispite everything, she fulfilled her deep longing to become a Carmelite nun and gained courage to confront her demons. Click here to order.

The Weight of Words

In the forward to this interesting anthology of poetry and personal experience Emma explains that the idea for this book came to her whilst she was recovering from an eating disorder. During sleepless nights she began writing vast amounts of poetry, as well as reading poems by other people who had experienced and eating disorder. Realising how much reading and writing poetry had helped her to understand her own feelings she decided to put together a book that would help both sufferers and the people who care about and support them to understand eating disorders in a new way. The book is divided into sections that explore the onset of the disorder, its effects on the sufferer and their families and friends and recovery. There are biographies, (actually they are really accounts of their struggle with an eating disorder) of some of the poets and some useful contacts. Click here to order.

The Wish to Change

Aims to enable people with anorexia to help themselves towards recovery. Provides practical information useful to someone with an eating disorder and their family. Click here to order.

A Woman in Your Own Right

The author describes how you can learn to assert yourself and how calmly to stand up for yourself and make your point. She gives a balance between being neither aggressive and trying to win your own way all the time, nor non-assertive and always giving in to others. She shows how you can train yourself to be more assertive, to try out and practice new ways of dealing with others, to choose your behaviour rather than just react.

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Women Who Love Too Much

This is for women who find themselves repeatedly drawn into unhappy and destructive relationships with men and then struggle to make these powerful, doomed relationships work. The author describes loving too much as a pattern of thoughts and behaviour which can develop as a response to problems from childhood. This book gives a programme for recovery. Appendices tell how to start your own support group, give UK and Australian sources of help, affirmations, and there is an index. Click here to order.