Resources

Eating Disorders Books

The Eating Disorder Sourcebook : A Comprehensive Guide to the Causes, Treatments, and Prevention of Eating Disorders
by Carolyn Costin

Provides a compassionate and comprehensive look at this potentially fatal disorder through a multidimensional approach that incorporates nutritional, psychological, and biochemical aspects. Costin addresses questions about the cause, treatment, and prevention of anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating disorder, and activity disorder.
 

Hope, Help and Healing For Eating Disorders
Gregory Jantz, Ph.D.
The New Revised and Updated Edition.
Dr. Jantz has developed a program that treats the emotional, relational, physical, and spiritual aspects of eating problems. This approach can be used by those with food disorders and their families and friends.

 

Talking to Eating Disorders: Simple Ways to Support Someone Who Has Anorexia, Bulimia, or Other Eating Disorders
by Heaton, Strauss

This compassionate guide offers ways to tackle the tough topics of body image, media messages, physical touch, diets, and exercise-along with a special section on talking about these issues with children. It includes information about when to get professional help, how to handle emergencies, and answers to difficult questions such as "Am I too fat?" or "Is this ok to eat?"
 

The Secret Language of Eating Disorders: How You Can Understand and Work to Cure Anorexia and Bulimia
by Peggy Claude-Pierre

When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship between Eating and Intimacy
By Geneen Roth

In this moving and intimate book, Geneen Roth, shows how dieting and compulsive eating often become a substitute for intimacy.
 

Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too
By Jenni Schaefer

As in the author's case, readers are encouraged to think of an eating disorder as if it were a distinct being with a personality of its own. Further, they are encouraged to treat the disorder as a relationship rather than as a condition. Schaefer named her eating disorder Ed; her recovery involved "breaking up" with Ed.
 

It's Not About Food
Change Your Mind; Change Your Life; End Your Obsession With Food and Weight
Carol Normandi & Laurelee Roark
The authors outline the useful and proven techniques that they have developed in their Beyond Hunger workshops, and assist readers in determining the differences between what their bodies crave to eat, what their minds think they should eat, and what their emotions are driving them to eat.

 

Books for Parents

Healthy Habits, Healthy Kids
Gregory Jantz, Ph.D.
Dr. Jantz Latest Book.
Because of poor nutrition decisions, kids today are gaining more weight, are susceptible to more stress, and are connecting less. But it's not too late to help your kids achieve a healthy, happy childhood.

Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder
By James Lock, Daniel le Grange

This book provides the tools you need to build a united family front that attacks the illness and to ensure that your child develops nourishing eating habits and life-sustaining attitudes, day by day, meal by meal.

 

When Your Child Has an Eating Disorder
By Abigail H. Natenshon

A Step-By-Step Workbook for Parents and Other Caregivers. This book has everything you need to know.

 

The Parent's Guide to Childhood Eating Disorders: A Nutritional Approach to Solving Eating Disorders
by Marcia Herrin, Nancy Matsumoto

How To Get Your Kid to Eat... But Not Too Much
By Ellyn Satter

Like Mother, Like Daughter
By Debra Waterhouse
How women are
influenced by their
mother's relationship
with Food.
 

Books on Self Harm

A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain
Marilee Strong
It is a compulsion that, while shocking and bewildering to most people, affects 2 million or more Americans and countless others around the globe--one of whom, the late Princess Diana, also suffered from the eating disorders that characterize between 35 to 80 percent of all cutters.
 

Self Harm Behavior and Eating Disorders: Dynamics, Assessment and Treatment
By Levitt, Ph.D., John L.; Sansone, M.D., Randy A.; Cohn, M.A.T., Leigh

The fact that self-harm behavior (e.g. burning, cutting and abrading oneself) is common in individuals with eating disorders is well known, though not much is known about the relationship between this frequent co-occurrence. This clinical text would be the first to comprehensively address the co-morbidity of self-harm behaviors and eating disorders.

Books on Healthy Weight Loss

Thin Over 40
Gregory Jantz, Ph.D.
The  Simple 12-Week Plan for getting back the body you had...or building the body you've always wanted. This is not a lose weight fast book. It is a book on healthy living.

 

Losing Weight–Permanently
Gregory L. Jantz, Ph.D.
Only 2 percent of dieters succeed at keeping off the weight they worked so hard to lose. There is a way to look great and lose that extra weight-permanently! Trusted eating disorder expert Dr. Gregory L. Jantz describes a different way to lose weight and keep it off.

 

The Total Temple Makeover
Dr. Gregory Jantz
How to turn YOUR BODY into a TEMPLE you can REJOICE in. No matter how many times you've tried...the Total Temple Plan can finally make weight loss a reality.
 

When Dieting Becomes Dangerous
By Deborah M. Michel, Susan G. Willard

Contains essential information that families and sufferers need to have to obtain a basic understanding of anorexia and bulimia.
 

Books on Related Topics

Healing the Scars of
Emotional Abuse
Gregory L. Jantz, Ph.D.
Many who have struggles with Eating Disorders have experienced emotional abuse.

Whether you or a loved one has been abused by words, actions, or even indifference, this book will help you understand the effects of the abuse, give you insight into the problems of the abuser, and show you how to overcome the past.

Emotional abuse can have the same destructive results as physical abuse. In this empathetic book, Jantz clearly defines emotional abuse and tells why it is so common and so damaging. The guidance in this book will help those abused understand the wounds behind the scars, enabling them to get over the past and live for the future.
 

Moving Beyond Depression: A Whole-Person Approach to Healing
by Gregory L. Jantz, Ph.D.

This is a landmark book on Depression. The simple design is easy to read (even when you are depressed) and at the end of each chapter is easy to apply steps.

How People Grow
Henry Cloud and
John Townsend

Discusses grace, forgiveness, and acceptance. Whether you're hoping to achieve personal and spiritual growth or are looking for guidance to help others, you'll find practical and proven wisdom.