Eating Disorders Arena

Beyond a Shadow of a Diet

The Therapist's Guide to Treating Compulsive Eating

• By Judith Matz, Ellen Frankel

This accessible volume will guide therapists of all disciplines through step-by-step treatment of compulsive eating. The authors introduce the new research related to health, weight,...

Published June 30th 2004 by Routledge.

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Enduring Change in Eating Disorders

Interventions with Long-Term Results

• By H. Charles Fishman

Enduring Change in Eating Disorders provides a unique perspective on the successful treatment of eating disorders, which are among the most debilitating and recalcitrant psychiatric...

Published March 25th 2004 by Routledge.

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Nutrition Counseling in the Treatment of Eating Disorders

• By Marcia Herrin

Most eating disordered patients believe themselves to be experts on the subject of nutrition, therefore the job of effective patient counseling becomes even more challenging....

Published November 15th 2002 by Routledge.

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Eating Disorders and Cultures in Transition

• Edited by Richard Gordon, Melanie Katzman, Mervat Nasser

Eating disorders: do they mark cultural transition?
Eating disorders that were once viewed as exclusive to specific class and ethnic boundaries in western culture are now...

Published September 5th 2002 by Routledge.

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Food as a Drug

• By Walker S C Poston, C Keith Haddock

Food as a Drug provides psychologists, psychiatrists, and counselors with a unique discussion about possible addictive qualities of some foods to assist clients who are...

Published July 14th 2000 by Routledge.

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Looking Queer

Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities

• By Phd, John Dececco, Dawn Atkins

Looking Queer: Body Image in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities contains research, firsthand accounts, poetry, theory, and journalistic essays that address and outline the...

Published June 15th 1998 by Routledge.

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Fat¿A Fate Worse Than Death?

Women, Weight, and Appearance

• By Ellen Cole, Esther D. Rothblum, Ruth R. Thone

Despite the gains of the women’s movement, women are still judged by what they look like--and men, by what they do. Fat--A Fate Worse Than...

Published August 12th 1997 by Routledge.

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Eating Disorders and Marital Relationships

• By Jan Norre, Stephan Van den Broucke, Walter Vandereycken

Anorexia and bulimia are on the increase in the Western world and the disease is now recognised to no longer be only a problem for...

Published July 3rd 1997 by Routledge.

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Culture and Weight Consciousness

• By Mervat Nasser

Anorexia nervosa and bulimia are among the few psychiatric syndromes with a plausible socio-cultural model of causation. Issues of culture and slimness are usually considered...

Published May 1st 1997 by Routledge.

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From Feasting To Fasting

The Evolution of a Sin

• By Veronika Grimm

In this highly original study, Veronika Grimm discusses early Christian texts dealing with food, eating and fasting. Modern day eating disorders often equate food with...

Published September 19th 1996 by Routledge.

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