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What is an eating disorder? What are the symptoms? What causes them? And is full recovery possible? Eating disorders are a growing issue - at least 2 per cent of females are now struggling with an eating disorder and studies amongst some groups such as teenage girls reveal much higher rates. This accessible and practical book helps readers to come to a full understanding of eating disorders and the various stages involved in recovery. It is essential reading for sufferers, their family and friends and also the interested reader. Writing from her experience of working with sufferers and drawing extensively on case histories, Dr Middleton explains what eating disorders are and why we develop them. Crucially, she offers guidance for setting out on the road to recovery.
About the Author
DR KATE MIDDLETON is Director of Anorexia and Bulimia Care, a charity working to support all who suffer because of eating disorders. She has a professional background in medicine and psychology and a specialist interest in eating disorders and associated problems.
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34 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book just blew me away. As someone who has dipped into this type of book before, I was expecting an understanding of the issues and some helpful information. What I never expected was the breadth of insight and the fantastically engaging style of writing. It seems highly unlikely with such a subject, but it really is an enjoyable and compelling read.
Dr Kate Middleton writes as if she is talking directly to every one of her readers - never condescending or jargony, always friendly, realistic and practical. At the same time it's clear she writes with immense authority on the subject. She inspires a much needed confidence and positivity in an area typically so dark and secret; she generates a certainty that anyone suffering from an eating disorder is not alone, and that real recovery is truly possible.
I completely recommend this book to anyone; male or female; sufferer or concerned onlooker; those with a professional interest, and those who are simply interested. It's like a breath of fresh air on the subject and it will transform the way you see things.
Dr Kate Middleton writes as if she is talking directly to every one of her readers - never condescending or jargony, always friendly, realistic and practical. At the same time it's clear she writes with immense authority on the subject. She inspires a much needed confidence and positivity in an area typically so dark and secret; she generates a certainty that anyone suffering from an eating disorder is not alone, and that real recovery is truly possible.
I completely recommend this book to anyone; male or female; sufferer or concerned onlooker; those with a professional interest, and those who are simply interested. It's like a breath of fresh air on the subject and it will transform the way you see things.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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This is a fantastic book which I highily recommend.It just approaches eating disorders in a pratical easy manner. This means is it easily understood and enlighting for people who have eating disorders, their friends/ familys and proffessionals. It not only deals with the pratical advicebut helps aleviate that gripping fear that having an eating disorder that some suffers can have.
It covers -
what are eating disorders,
the different types and symptomns
Pitfalls of eating disorders and the recovery process
How to get help
Planning a recovery route
About food and eating
Advice for families and friends
It also has pratical tips and small tasks to let people see how an eating disorder is affecting them and to face the fear of recovery.I have tired a few of these with people and can see how they really help.
I have read several books about eating disorders and they can be really heavy and overwhelming. However this one is a short, easy book that I have loaned to several people who love it too.
Eating disorders are highily complicated subject and it shows how good a book is that it makes a complicated subject so easily understood and offers hope.
It covers -
what are eating disorders,
the different types and symptomns
Pitfalls of eating disorders and the recovery process
How to get help
Planning a recovery route
About food and eating
Advice for families and friends
It also has pratical tips and small tasks to let people see how an eating disorder is affecting them and to face the fear of recovery.I have tired a few of these with people and can see how they really help.
I have read several books about eating disorders and they can be really heavy and overwhelming. However this one is a short, easy book that I have loaned to several people who love it too.
Eating disorders are highily complicated subject and it shows how good a book is that it makes a complicated subject so easily understood and offers hope.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
...I was still in a lot of denial about the way that anorexia was starting to take control of my life.This book really helped me in the beginning to recognise and understand what was happening to me and most importantly how much I needed to ask for help if I was going to be able to begin and sustiain the journey towards recovery.I would really encourage anyone who thinks that either they themselves or a close friend or relative is having any difficulty around their relationship to food.Even if you still feel you are only at a very early stage,things can snowball very quickly,don't wait until things get much worse,which if you don't change course they most certainly will.I wish you well in this difficult journey,whoever you are and however you feel right now,you are worth the effort.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
The best book there is for those wanting to recover fully
I bought this book, and some others, for a loved one now considering getting better. The others I had to return - one in particular called itself a recovery book but majored on... Read more
Published 27 days ago by By-the-sea
Brilliant
I would definitely recommend this book, if you are suffering from an eating disorder it really helps you to see that you can recover! Read more
Published 7 months ago by ange
Heavy bias towards anorexia nervosa
This book is a quick read and gives a good overview of eating disorders in general.
However, it has a serious flaw in that it has a heavy bias towards anorexia nervosa. Read more
However, it has a serious flaw in that it has a heavy bias towards anorexia nervosa. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Gerund
Great
Bought to give to a friend who was suffering..helped her but she also found it extremly useful to give to her mum who didnt really understand and it helped immensly!!
Published 16 months ago by Lisa
Not self helping
This is a good book if your looking to try and understand a eating disorder but if you have a eating disorder and looking for help I don't belive this to be the book for you.
Published 21 months ago by Carly
practical and helpful
Eating Disorders: The Path to Recovery
This is an extremely readable book full of practical and helpful advice from someone who has obvious experience of a wide range of... Read more
This is an extremely readable book full of practical and helpful advice from someone who has obvious experience of a wide range of... Read more
Published on 23 April 2009 by FifiB
Insightful and compassionate
What a great book!
For those of us who understand little about this complex issue but want to support and encourage others with an eating disorder this is a great book. Read more
For those of us who understand little about this complex issue but want to support and encourage others with an eating disorder this is a great book. Read more
Published on 4 Aug 2008 by Robert Rayward
Eating Disorders, A Path to Recovery
This book is a comprehensive and sympathetic guide, exploring the whole area of the possible repurcussions of ongoing anxiety. Read more
Published on 16 Sep 2007 by Janine Hurrell
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