Description
Book Synopsis"To understand your eating, you first have to understand yourself. This easily-read book helps you to step back and discover what influences your eating habits."
Dr Ian Campbell - Founder of the National Obesity Forum and medical consultant on ITV's The Biggest Loser and Fat Chance"This valuable book makes sense of how food and eating may be misused and become entangled with emotions as a way of dealing with them."
Dr Helena Fox - Clinical Psychiatrist for Channel 4's Supersize vs Superskinny and for the eating disorders unit at Capio Nightingale Hospital
"I have never read such an interesting and thought provoking book on eating disorders such as this. For practitioners reading this publication, I feel it illustrates successfully the clinical significance of the biopsychosocial aspects of eating disorders such as the role of the mother or caregiver (s), the environment of the patient's upbringing and how their self identity is later affected and challe
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
About the author
Section One
Introduction
Disordered eating and the uses of food
Thinking about food
Section Two
Disordered eating as a response to crisis
On being a woman
The difficulties of growing up
At least I'll control what I put in my mouth
Mothers and daughters
Eating your heart out
Eating disorders as a response to sexual abuse
Me and my body
Men and disordered eating
Section Three
Resources
