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"New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as 'wildly undisciplined, ' Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she casts an insightful...
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"Surviving an Eating Disorder is the first book for family and friends to use a psychological perspective to understand eating disorders. Other treatment manuals or self-help books propose change but Surviving is the first to consider why change can be so hard for everyone involved. The factors that can hinder progress are discussed and the methods that can work are emphasized. Illustrated with case examples, this fourth edition explains the latest...
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A graphic memoir of eating disorders, abuse and recovery. Lighter Than My Shadow is a hand-drawn story of struggle and recovery, a trip into the black heart of a taboo illness; an exposure of those who are so weak as to prey on the weak, and an inspiration to anybody who believes in the human power to endure towards happiness.
4) Helping patients outsmart overeating: psychological strategies for doctors and health care providers
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This book offers a new paradigm for doctors and health care providers treating patients with eating and weight concerns that replaces a failed, moralistic focus on weight and weight-loss with one of fostering health, pride, self-efficacy, and effective self-care. --Publisher
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"Leverage dives into the frustration and complication that binge eating can create in daily life. Linda Vang outlines the tools and daily routines that are essential to breaking the habit of binge eating. Most importantly, she will teach you how to make an impact in the way you think, the choices you make, and the success that will follow you."--Page 4 of cover
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Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science
New directions for mental health services volume no. 31 (Fall 1986)
New directions for mental health services volume no. 31
New directions for mental health services volume no. 31 (Fall 1986)
New directions for mental health services volume no. 31
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Prevenir es mejor que curar y la educación alimentaria durante los primeros años de crianza es fundamental para el futuro crecimiento de los niños. Aurora Mastroleo y Pamela Pace utilizan testimonios y ejemplos reales de padres y madres para narrar una problemática cada vez más habitual en los adolescentes y finalmente, en los adultos: los trastornos alimenticios como la bulimia, obesidad o anorexia. Este libro parte del vínculo "alimento-amor-mensaje",...
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Greenwood's "Q&A Health Guides" series addressees the questions and concerns of readers on a wide variety of physical and mental health topics in an authoritative yet still accessible way. Each title follows a simple question-and-answer format that makes finding accurate information fast and easy. A collection of engaging case studies offers real-world insights, while a guide to common myths and misconceptions dispels the most pervasive and potentially...
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"Overeating, binge eating, obesity, anorexia, and bulimia: Food Junkies tackles the complex, poorly understood issue of food addiction from the perspectives of a medical researcher and dozens of survivors. What exactly is food addiction? Is it possible to draw a hard line between indulging cravings for "comfort food" and engaging in substance abuse? For people struggling with food addictions, recognizing their condition remains a frustrating battle....
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"Acclaimed for its encyclopedic coverage, this is the only handbook that synthesizes current knowledge and clinical practices in the fields of both eating disorders and obesity. Like the prior editions, the significantly revised third edition features more than 100 concise, focused chapters with lists of key readings in place of extended references. All aspects of eating disorders and obesity are addressed by foremost clinical researchers: classification,...
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