Psicología / Psicopatología / Problemas de la alimentación

Anorexia: A Stranger in the Family

de Katie Metcalfe

Katie Metcalfe takes readers through the daily struggle with this potentially lethal obsession. Life After Anorexia is not only for recovering anorexics, but for friends and family, struggling to cope, or for...

Hope, Help, and Healing for Eating Disorders: A New Approach to Treating Anorexia, Bulimia, and Overeating

de Gregory L. Dr Jantz & Ann Mcmurray

Eating disorders–including anorexia, bulimia, and compulsive overeating–are among the most painful and difficult illnesses a person can face. Sufferers know firsthand the confusion and agony these illnesses...

Eating Disorders for Dummies

de Susan Schulherr

Do you think that you or someone you love may suffer from and eating disorder? Eating Disorders For Dummies gives you the straight facts you need to make sense of what’s happening inside you and offers a simple...

Lying in Weight

de Trisha Gura

A girl with an eating disorder grows up. And then what?

In this groundbreaking book, science journalist Trisha Gura explodes the myth that those who suffer from eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa and...

Creating Bodies: Eating Disorders as Self-Destructive Survival

de Katie Gentile

Amid the welter of clinical studies, memoirs, and other death-defying tales of eating disorders, we remain unclear about the relationships among trauma, anorexia, and bulimia, and about the psychological pathways...

Eating Disorders Not Otherwise Specified

de Claes Norring & Bob Palmer

Eating Disorders Not Otherwise Specified covers all eating disorders that do not fall into either of the two main diagnostic groups: anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Although these less well known conditions...

Desperately Seeking Self: An Inner Guidebook for People with Eating Problems

de Viola Fodor

This little book is a powerful reminder that your true nature is the most precious resource that you have to help yourself. Presented in the unique form of a dialogue between a therapist and a client, it encourages...

College Students in Distress: A Resource Guide for Faculty, Staff, and Campus Community

de Bruce Sharkin

Be prepared to deal with campus situations that involve students in emotional crisis

College Students in Distress provides college personnel with invaluable information on how to identify and refer emotionally...

A Clinician's Guide to Binge Eating Disorder

de June Alexander, Andrea B. Goldschmidt & Daniel Le Grange

Incidence of BED appears to be on the increase. Treating it, and overcoming it, is all the more difficult, especially for those living in a culture that has an intense body image focus.

A Clinician's Guide...

Eating Disorders: A Parents' Guide, Second edition

de Rachel Bryant-Waugh & Bryan Lask

Eating problems are common in children and teenagers. Yet myths about such problems abound and it can be very difficult to separate the facts from popular beliefs; unusual or disturbed eating patterns can be...

Your Dieting Daughter, 2nd Edition

de Carolyn Costin

Your Dieting Daughter is a must read for anyone wanting to help contribute to a young woman's development of a healthy self and body esteem, whether she is 13 or 30. Costin has updated the first edition of this...

Nutrition Counseling in the Treatment of Eating Disorders

de Marcia Herrin & Maria Larkin

Marcia Herrin and Maria Larkin have collaborated on the second edition of Nutrition Counseling in the Treatment of Eating Disorders, infusing research-based approaches and their own clinically-refined tools...

Cut Down to Size: Achieving success with weight loss surgery

de Jenny Radcliffe

Cut Down to Size covers everything you need to know about bariatric surgery, from referral through to the challenges you may face after surgery. Most people who seek weight loss surgery have struggled for many...

Always the Fat Kid

de Jacob Warren & K. Bryant Smalley

Childhood obesity in the United States has tripled in a generation. But while debates continue over the content of school lunches and the dangers of fast food, we are just beginning to recognize the full extent...

Eating Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence, 4th Edition

de Bryan Lask & Rachel Bryant-Waugh

In the fourth edition of this accessible and comprehensive book, Bryan Lask and Rachel Bryant-Waugh build on the research and expertise of the previous three editions. First published in 1993, this was the first...

Bodies

de Susie Orbach

Esteemed Psychotherapist and writer Susie Orbach diagnoses the crisis in our relationship to our bodies and points the way toward a process of healing.

Throughout the Western world, people have come to believe...

Decoding Anorexia: How Breakthroughs in Science Offer Hope for Eating Disorders

de Carrie Arnold

Decoding Anorexia is the first and only book to explain anorexia nervosa from a biological point of view. Its clear, user-friendly descriptions of the genetics and neuroscience behind the disorder is paired...

Overcoming Bulimia Nervosa and Binge-Eating

de Peter Cooper

As many as one in 20 women in the western world suffer bouts of uncontrolled binge-eating. Going without food for long periods, making yourself vomit and taking laxatives you don't need are also common and are...

Treatment Manual for Anorexia Nervosa, Second Edition: A Family-Based Approach

de James Lock & Daniel Le Grange

This indispensable manual presents the leading empirically supported treatment approach for adolescents with anorexia nervosa (AN). What sets family-based treatment apart is the central role played by parents...

Night Eating Syndrome: Research, Assessment, and Treatment

de Jennifer Lundgren & Kelly C. Allison

In one indispensable volume, this book combines a complete overview of night eating syndrome (NES) with evidence-based treatment guidelines and clinical tools. Experts in the field review the biological underpinnings...