Coping with / advice about eating disorders Books

Book SynopsisKlein's model of projective and introjective processes and Bion's model of the relationship between container and contained have become increasingly significant in clinical work. In a highly imaginative development of these models of thought, the distinguished clinician Gianna Williams, one of the leading figures in the field, elucidates the psychodynamics of these processes in the context of impairment of dependent relationships and of eating disorders in both men and women. This is a timely and brilliant account of an area of psychopathology that is rapidly growing in significance. The author provides a subtle understanding of some of the obstacles, which stand in the way of patients seeking and receiving therapeutic helpInternal Landscapes and Foreign Bodies explores the problems which arise in forming and sustaining intimate relationships. This book is based on Gianna Williams' work over many years in the Tavistock Clinic, including work in the Eating Disorders Workshop of the Adolescent Department. It examines how dependency is defended against in a variety of ways, which involve refusing to take in good experiences, by keeping some relationships at bay and controlling others. These defences can take the form of eating disorders but also have an important significance in a variety of other pathologies.Trade Review'I can recommend this book wholeheartedly. It will be of use to experienced practitioners in reflecting on their own work and as a source for training in psychodynamic concepts and psychotherapy.'- Adrian Sutton, Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry'Williams certainly succeeds in making a major contribution to the sparse psychoanalytic literature on eating disorders, and in putting forward a means by which professionals from various analytic backgrounds might sustain work with the most disturbed young people.'- Rose Gallagher, The European Journal of Psychotherapy, Counselling & HealthTable of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface -- Author’s Note -- Introduction -- The Inner World of the Child -- Thinking and Learning in Deprived Children -- Double Deprivation -- On Gang Dynamics -- Self-Esteem and Object Esteem -- On the Process of Internalisation -- Poor Feeders -- Reversal of the ‘Container/Contained’ Relationship -- The No-Entry System of Defences -- On Introjective Processes -- Foreign Bodies

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Book SynopsisBingeing, compulsive eating, food addiction, emotional overeating—no matter what you call it, too many women wrestle day to day with what they eat. It’s a love-hate relationship that always seems to be spiraling out of control. Food: The Good Girl’s Drug is one recovered binge eater’s attempt to inject some sanity back into the discussion about food, body image, and overeating.Sunny Sea Gold started fighting binge eating disorder in her early teens. But books on the topic were often aimed at housewives with kids and a white picket fence, women she had a hard time relating to. What about the girls who found themselves using all their roommate’s peanut butter, nibbling from the work refrigerator, or hiding a stash of chocolate from boyfriends, and were too ashamed to say anything?   Calling on top mental health professionals, nutritionists, and fitness experts, Sunny offers real advice to a new generation fighting aTrade ReviewPraise for Food: the Good Girl’s Drug“Sunny Sea Gold is one of the best and most compassionate educators about women's health issues out there. She is especially strong on the emotional underpinnings of health conditions such as eating disorders and obsessive thinking about body image that have deep roots in a gender context.”—Naomi Wolf, author of the New York Times bestsellers The Beauty Myth, The End of America and Give Me Liberty“Filled with actionable tools, rich insight, and expert knowledge.”—Johanna Kandel, Executive Director of The Alliance of Eating Disorders “Sharing deeply personal stories of hope and recovery from the prison of problematic relationships with food, eating and exercise, Sunny Gold and the brave women who with her offer their insights contribute to a comprehensive survey of the topic in a manner that is remarkably, if you will....easily digestible.”—Dr. Drew Pinsky, M.D.

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Book SynopsisThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Women Food and God maps a path to meeting one of our greatest challenges-how we deal with money. When Geneen Roth and her husband lost their life savings in the Bernard Madoff debacle, Roth joined the millions of Americans dealing with financial turbulence, uncertainty, and abrupt reversals in their expectations. The resulting shock was the catalyst for her to explore how women's habits and behaviors around money-as with food-can lead to exactly the situations they most want to avoid. Roth identified her own unconscious choices: binge shopping followed by periods of budgetary self-deprivation, treating herself in ways that ultimately failed to sustain, and using money as a substitute for love, among others. As she examined the deep sources of these habits, she faced the hard truth about where her self-protective financial decisions had led. With irreverent humor and hard-won wisdom, she offers provocative and radical sTrade Review“Roth is courageous in her honesty.”—Michelle Singletary, The Washington Post “Roth teaches by example the transformative power of awareness. With compassion and humor she dismantles unconscious compulsions that bespeak an inner poverty, dissipating what she calls the ‘trance of deficiency’ that hijacks financial relationships and self-worth. Fans familiar with the heart and wisdom that infuses Roth's candid writing style and makes her books memorable won't be disappointed.”—Publisher's Weekly “Encourages stressed-out people to step back and look the good things they have—even such simple things as a treasured tea cup—to help liberate themselves from old patterns.”—Robin Mcmacken, Grand Rapid Press (Michigan)

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Book SynopsisA proven plan to break free from your unhealthy relationship with Sugar - and reclaim your health and your life for good.The solution to your food and weight problems isn't willpower or the next fad diet - it's breaking up with Sugar. Molly Carmel, an eating disorder therapist with a thriving clinic in New York City, discovered the devastating role Sugar played in her own 20-year struggle with disordered eating. After reaching a peak weight of 325 pounds and trying every diet imaginable, Molly was finally able to dramatically transform her life--and find her happy weight-by breaking up with Sugar. Molly has since helped thousands of people overcome compulsive overeating, repetitive dieting, and Sugar addiction to reinvent their lives. Here, she shares her empowering 66-day blueprint for kicking Sugar to the curb - once and for all.Molly explains how Sugar is not only bad for your health, it's also a substance with highly addictive potential - one that crea

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Book SynopsisThe compulsively readable memoir of a woman at war—with herself, with her body, and with food—while working her way through the underbelly of New York City’s glamorous culinary scene. Hannah Howard is a Columbia University freshman when she lands a hostess job at Picholine, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Manhattan. Eighteen years old and eager to learn, she’s invigorated by the manic energy and knife-sharp focus of the crew. By day Hannah explores the Columbia arts scene, struggling to find her place. By night she’s intoxicated by boxes of heady truffles and intrigued by the food industry’s insiders. She’s hungry for knowledge, success, and love, but she’s also ravenous because she hasn’t eaten more than yogurt and coffee in days. Hannah is hiding an eating disorder. The excruciatingly late nights, demanding chefs, bad boyfriends, and destructive obsessions have left a void inside her that she can’t fill. To reconcile her relationships with the food she worships and a body she struggles to accept, Hannah’s going to have to learn to nourish her soul.Trade Review“In this candid and searching memoir, Howard offers a celebration of food as well as an account of the determination required to forge a path to self-acceptance. An inspirational memoir of food and finding oneself.” —Kirkus Reviews “Those in recovery from substance abuse will recognize themselves throughout this honest memoir; for those without addiction issues, this story offers a painful glance into the lives of those who suffer.” —Publishers Weekly “In this deeply felt memoir, Howard, who also mentors young women recovering from eating disorders, pens riveting accounts of the raging monster of bingeing and haunting tales of days of weakness. Readers who are untouched by an eating disorder will be shocked, and those who know its pain more intimately will find a compassionate and understanding friend in Howard.” —Booklist “Feast is a delicious memoir unlike any other.” —HelloGiggles “I’ve just read Feast: True Love in and out of the Kitchen, food writer Hannah Howard’s book about coming of age in the New York food scene with an eating disorder. It’s honest and funny and full of her love of food—and the conflict between her insatiable hunger with her desire to be thin. I’ve come away from it thinking she is very brave.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “Feast is a beautiful, heartbreaking, and life-affirming story that anyone who has ever struggled to define a healthy relationship with food will be able to relate to. I couldn’t put it down.” —Nicola Kraus, author of The Nanny Diaries “Heartfelt, heartbreaking, and courageously generous, Feast is one of the most memorable and important debuts I’ve ever read. With beautiful lyricism and unflinching storytelling, Hannah Howard weaves together addiction, love, fear, sexism, insecurity, ambition, and trauma in a way I’ve never seen done before. As with everything, with every life, Feast isn’t a story about one thing, but rather how intersecting, manifold, and even contradictory things make up a life. It’s a story about the miraculousness of becoming yourself. A must-read for anyone who’s ever wanted to escape their body, for anyone who has loved deeply and wrongly, for anyone who has dared to forgive themselves.” —Morgan Parker, author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé “Brave and beautifully written, Feast is an addictive read. Hannah Howard brilliantly captures the complicated relationships so many of us have with food, love, sex, and ourselves in lyrical prose that will make you hungry for more.” —Kimberly Rae Miller, author of Beautiful Bodies “Hannah Howard’s memoir, Feast, is a courageous exploration of vulnerability, desire, and addiction, set to the thrilling backdrop of New York City’s nascent foodie culture. It’s a must-read for food lovers and makers alike.” —Tia Keenan, author of The Art of the Cheese Plate: Pairings, Recipes, Style, Attitude “Word for word, sentence for sentence, and chapter for chapter, Hannah Howard has written a hard-to-put-down book—one that is heart-wrenching and, ultimately, uplifting and inspirational.” —David Farley, author of An Irreverent Curiosity “In her revealing new memoir, Hannah Howard tells a raw tale of her love-hate relationship with eating, delving into the dark side of our food-obsessed culture. Between tormented relationships with chefs, a moth-to-a-flame attraction to the food industry, and her own struggles with an eating disorder, Howard emerges stronger and wiser, encouraging readers that yes, it can get better.” —Gabriella Gershenson, food writer and editor “An immensely entertaining debut by a writer whose precision and self-preservation are that of a jet-fighter pilot—incisive, totally aware of the forces around her and her own fallibility.” —Steven Jenkins, author of Cheese Primer “Feast is a beautifully rendered account not only of coming of age as a woman in the fraught, fascinating world of food, but of coming of age as a woman in her own skin, and body, and mind. Hannah Howard writes with exceptional candor, insight, and intelligence.” —Rosie Schaap, author of Drinking with Men “Hannah Howard tells her story with honesty, insight, humor and deliciously descriptive prose. Feast is a gripping, moving memoir, a book that lives up its name.” —Sam Lipsyte, author of The Fun Parts “A gorgeous, painful reckoning with food, femininity, and ambition—a moving look at a young woman becoming herself in the grueling culture of New York City restaurants. There’s an affecting tension between Howard’s passion for exquisite food and an eating disorder that has become a ‘soundtrack’ to her life. This is a book full of heartbreak and delight, with appealing expertise from a talented writer who has been in the trenches, sampling suckling pig, taking the temperature of trout, dodging the unwanted advance from the chef. Rich, complex, and compulsively readable.” —Megan Mayhew Bergman, author of Almost Famous Women “In her remarkably vivid debut book, Feast: True Love in and out of the Kitchen, Hannah Howard draws us into her extraordinary, relatable coming-of-age story, which takes place amidst the bustle and intrigue—and booms and busts—of the food world. In so doing, she dishes up the inside story of her struggles with bad boyfriends, body image, and an eating disorder—with fasting and bingeing, successes and setbacks, emotional ups and downs, and the search for deeper meaning and inner peace. I couldn’t put this book down.” —Stephen Massimilla, author of Cooking with the Muse

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Book SynopsisHave you ever stood at the kitchen counter urgently devouring insane amounts of frozen, stale hot dog buns dipped alternatively in jelly and almond butter, while on high alert for approaching humans? After a lifetime of getting knocked to the ground by the same opponent, a Dark Voice, and then rising repeatedly while praying for a way out, Naomi Joseph wrote the rules of "Binge and Sprint:" Use cake as fortitude to steel yourself to plow ahead, and then keep moving, keep achieving, and never ever let the world see your suffering. Never idle, Joseph takes the reader on a four decade journey from childhood through college, marriage, buying a home, comparison, community, infertility, low self-worth, work, starting a business, keeping up with the Joneses, and caring for children and ailing parents, all while chained to her secret burden. Readers will understand their own darkness in the midst of "the good life" as the lid is blown off the shameful shroud of the taboo war with food.Poignant and hilarious, Joseph's journey will help the reader claim their power, and lean into their greatness as they incorporate the many lessons that brought her to recovery into their own lives.

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Book SynopsisEl arte de la atención (mindfulness) puede transformar nuestra cotidiana lucha con las comidas, renovar nuestro sentido del placer, así como nuestra satisfacción con la alimentación.  El arte de la atención plena puede transformar nuestros conflictos con la alimentación –y renovar nuestro sentido del placer, valoración y satisfacción con la comida. Recurriendo a investigaciones recientes e integrando sus experiencias como médica y maestra de meditación, la Dra. Jan Bays ofrece una presentación maravillosamente clara de lo que es la conciencia plena y cómo ésta puede ayudar con los problemas alimenticios.Comer atentos es un enfoque que involucra llevar una conciencia plena al proceso de alimentación –a todos los sabores, olores, pensamientos y sensaciones que surgen durante una comida. Ya sea que usted tenga sobrepeso, sufra de un desorden alimenticio, o simplemente quiera sacar más provecho de su vida, este libro le ofrece una herramienta simple que puede marcar una diferencia notable. En este libro, usted aprenderá cómo:   • Sintonizar con la propia sabiduría de su cuerpo en relación a qué, cuándo y cuánto comer.    • Sentirse plenamente satisfecha aunque coma menos.    • Identificar sus hábitos y patrones alimenticios.    • Desarrollar una actitud más compasiva hacia sus problemas alimenticios.    • Descubrir la verdadera fuente de su ansiedad por la comida. Comer atentos incluye también un programa descargable de audio de 80 minutos de duración, con ejercicios guiados.

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Book SynopsisNine years old. That's the average age when a girl puts on her "invisible corset," knowing that going forward, her value is inextricably tied to her appearance. According to author Lauren Geertsen, the invisible corset is a set of culturally inherited beliefs that make women feel insecure and anxious in their own bodies. "Women discarded their whalebone corsets in the early twentieth century," she writes, "But there remained in place an invisible corset, just as limiting and uncomfortable, with its strings left in the hands of culture to tighten as it pleases." Geertsen teaches that the purpose of the invisible corset was always to keep women trapped: while society once limited women's freedom by saying their place was in the home, it now restricts women with the message that their place is in a beautiful body. By unraveling the false narratives that keep these invisible corsets in place, Geertsen helps women shift from controlling their bodies as burdens to trusting their bodies as lifelong partners. Unlike other body positivity books, The Invisible Corset isn't about celebrating your wrinkles or loving your butt-it's about freeing yourself from a culture that puts so much emphasis on them in the first place. As the corsets come off, women will reclaim their time, money, and confidence so they can courageously do the work their souls came to do.

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