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The first book to explore men's issues with eating disorders and body image issues.
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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
AN EXCELLENT BOOK THAT COVERS ALL THE ASPECTS OF HOW MEN THINK ABOUT THIER BODIES FROM TOP TO BOTTOM. THIS BOOK GREATLY HELPED ME IN COMPLETING MY DEGREE DISSERTATION BASED ON ANABOLIC STEROIDS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH.IT REFLECTS ON MANY REALISTIC ASPECTS THAT MANY GYM USERS GO THROUGH. PERSONALLY I STRONGLY RECOMMEND MALE PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS EVEN THOSE IN GENERAL TO PURCHASE THIS TO EDUCATE AND UNDERSTAND JUST HOW MUCH SOCIETY HAS CHANGED FROM WOMEN BEING THE TYPICAL SUBJECTS OF BODY IMAGE FREAKS TO MEN WHO UNDERTAKE STRANGE SIDE TURNS THAT EXTREMELY GOES BEYOND THAT OF ANOREXIA AND OTHER BODY DISORDERS LIKE DIET, EXERCISE, CLOTHING ETC...
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Academy for Eating Disorders Review
22 May 2002
Format:Paperback
This book offers the lay person a comprehensive guide to weight and body image issues in men and promises to be a valuable resource for men and their families. The authors make compelling arguments for how and why these problems have increased for males over the last decade. The book is directed primarily toward men "who can't stand the way they look in the mirror, and the ones who are so driven for perfection that they neglect the deeper areas of life"(p.xiv). However, it is also intended for family and friends of such men and professionals who may treat them in clinical practice. The tone and style of the book would appeal a bit more to a lay audience than a professional one, and I think would make a good "recommended reading" for a therapist to offer to a client.
Overall, this book makes a very important contribution ... and one that you can recommend to your patients for an informative and insightful examination of men's concerns with weight and shape.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Review by Joel Yager, M.D.
22 May 2002
Format:Paperback
You'd never suspect from looking at the cover articles of men's fitness magazines at your local newsstands, but until now men had cause to feel neglected by the body dissatisfaction mavens of the academic community. In contrast to the scores of books written about women's issues about their bodies, eating disorders, and related topics, the literature addressed to males has been thin indeed. Men with eating disorders can now feel cared about too.
Dr. Tom Holbrook's account of his own struggle with anorexia nervosa is a highlight of the book. This remarkably candid, self-revelatory story of an astute psychiatrist whose struggles permeated his medical and psychiatric training and subsequent practice is probably matchless in the annals of wounded healers.
The last sections concern recovery, dealing with topics from basic nutritional information designed to foster realistic dietary and meal planning for gaining (or losing) weight, to psychological, social and spiritual aspects of recovery.
16 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Light Treatment
3 July 2000
Format:Paperback
Surprise surprise! Men have bodies, too; and what they see in their own glass or mental mirrors has as deep a sociological and psychological influence as for women. Inevitably, then, habitual use of food and exercise to control the personal impulses and cultural responses could never remain a "woman's problem." What will be regretable will be how many male deaths and destroyed lives it will take before that simple point does not have to be the main theme opening a book such as this...and then pretty much the only theme of substance that the authors seem interested in fleshing out throughout the rest of their superficial treatment of the subject. Before this book, material on male eating disorders was quite rare and frequently misguided; after this book, good material on male eating disorders remains just as rare as before. With the deep experience brought to the matter by all three respectable authors, that suggests a depressing prognosis for finding any understanding out there among less knowledgeable therapists and others in a position to support recovery. Sure, the book throws a wide net in the search for causes and recognizes the core of the issue in its suggestions for recovery; but in an attempt to reach a general public audience, they have gone so light-headed that they come off like quack doctors probing any place it might maybe hurt, then handing out snake oil for the remedy. Even with gender identity running so horribly ferociously through the problem for both sexes, men who suffer and the family and support systems helping them would do better at this point to look to any of the excellent books already published for women.
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