Eating Disorders Arena

Overcoming Body Image Disturbance

A Programme for People with Eating Disorders

• By Lorraine Bell, and Jenny Rushforth.

Published February 2008

People with eating disorders often exhibit serious misconceptions about their own body image. Overcoming Body Image Disturbance provides a treatment programme (piloted by the authors) for people with eating disorders who have a negative body image. The manual offers advice for therapists,…
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Eating Disorders and Cultures in Transition

• Edited by Mervat Nasser, Melanie Katzman and Richard Gordon.

Published September 2002

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 spreading worldwide. This issue is fully discussed in this groundbreaking volume.Eating Disorders and Cultures in Transition is…
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The Thin Woman

Feminism, Post-structuralism and the Social Psychology of Anorexia Nervosa

• By Helen Malson.

Published November 1997

The Thin Woman provides an in-depth discussion of anorexia nervosa from a feminist social psychological standpoint. Medicine, psychiatry and psychology have all presented us with particular ways of understanding eating disorders, yet the notion of 'anorexia' as a medical condition limits our…
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Anorexia Nervosa

A Survival Guide for Families, Friends and Sufferers

• By Janet Treasure.

Published November 1997

When anorexia nervosa strikes an individual and her family, everyone is thrown into confusion by the mixture of emotions that emerge. One of the strongest is fear. The fear arises partially because so much is unknown. What has caused this to happen? What will happen now? What can we do about it?…
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Anorexia Nervosa

Guidelines For Assessment & Treatment In Primary & Secondary Care

• By A.H. Crisp.

Published March 1996

We are delighted to publish this second edition of Anorexia Nervosa: Guidelines for Assessment and Treatment in Primary and Secondary Care, based on the first author's long-standing "St George's" Approach, which has been so well received since it was first published in 1994. The book aims to…
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Anorexia Nervosa - Clinician's Pack

(1) Guidelines for Assessment and Treatment in Primary and Secondary Care (2) The Wish to Change (3) Patient's Log Book

• By Professor A H Crisp, Lisa McClelland, Neil Joughin, Chris Halek and Carol Bowyer.

Published March 1996

Anorexia Nervosa: Guidelines for Assessment and Treatment in Primary and Secondary Care" is based on Professor Crisp's long-standing views which came to be known as the "St George's" approach to anorexia nervosa. The book aims to outline in a clear, practical way the minimum intervention necessary…
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Anorexia Nervosa

The Wish to Change

• By Professor A. H. Crisp, Neil Joughin, Christine Halek and Carol Bowyer.

Published March 1996

This guide to 'self-help' has become highly valued by sufferers from anorexia nervosa, their families and their carers. It relates to Arthur Crisp's much praised text Anorexia Nervosa: Let Me Be, now in its third reprint. Many sufferers report that Anorexia Nervosa: The Wish to Change has provided…
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Anorexic Bodies

A Feminist and Sociological Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa

• By Morag MacSween, and Morag Macsween.

Published November 1995

This book explores the ways in which anorexic women use their eating to control their bodies. It argues that the female body in modern Western culture is understood as open and accessible and female appetite as dangerous and voracious. Anorexia attempts to resist both these constructions in the…
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Anorexia Nervosa

Patient's Log Book

• By Professor A H Crisp, and A.H. Crisp.

Published August 1995

This log book brings together the in-patient version originally designed by Professor Arthur Crisp and Dr Kingsley Norton for use by people undergoing treatment in the Anorexia Nervosa Unit at Atkinson Morley's Hosptial, and the out-patient version published by Professor Crisp in 1993. The latter…
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Anorexia Nervosa

Let Me Be

• By Professor A H Crisp, and A.H. Crisp.

Published April 1995

The theme of this text is the enduring relationship of anorexia nervosa to the unfolding of puberty, which transcends and shapes the input of "fashion". Anorexia nervosa is closely related to the personal challenges of adolescence and further growth within the individual and family. The author sees…
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