Description
Book SynopsisPraise for the first edition:
"...this thoroughly researched and very detailed book provides the serious student of eating disorders with a great deal of useful and constructive information...it provides a complete picture of the individual sufferer's dilemma and notes the wide-ranging behavioural patterns that can occur in these conditions...The authors have made extensive use of their own experiences {of helping people recover} which help to illustrate their findings in a most straightforward and enlightening manner." - British Review of Bulimia and Anorexia Nervosa
"This brilliant book helped me and my family to see that the illness is so much more than an effort to control weight. Sharing the book could also provide you with an excellent channel of communication." - The Guardian
"...many therapists would benefit from reading this book. If more helpers treated their patients with the authors' degree of empathy and integrity, treatment of anorexia nervosa would t
Trade Review"This is well written, covering the subject thoroughly. It is clearly the work of caring clinicians rather than dusty academics. I originally intended just to skim this book but found myself so impressed by it that I not only read it thoroughly but also bought copies for my counseling staff!" - Dr Robert Lefever
Table of ContentsIntroduction to the second edition
Part one
Beginning to unravel the problem
A path through the theories
Control by any other name
Bad medicine
Part two
The picture at low weight and foundations for help
Viable weight and the picture that is hidden
The culture of control
On becoming a person
through food control
Part three
Perspectives that maintain the ability to help
Getting through
Good medicine
Turning around
Transition
Moving towards a real sense of self
Appendix
References
Index.
