Beyond a Shadow of a Diet: The Therapist's Guide to Treating Compulsive Eating
This accessible volume will guide therapists of all disciplines through step-by-step treatment of compulsive eating.\ The authors introduce the new research related to health, weight, fitness and diet failure, and then discuss a treatment method which advocates eating as guided by physiological signal: eating when you are hungry and stopping when you are full. The book offers tools for therapists to recognize compulsive eating patterns, use their training to address underlying psychological...
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Writing for a professional readership, Matz, director of the Chicago Center for Overcoming Overeating, and Frankel, affiliated with the Massachusetts Eating Disorder Association, point to research indicating that dieting exacerbates the diet-binge cycle and present a sound method of solving, rather than controlling, compulsive eating. They explore the roots of compulsive eating and invite readers to examine their own attitudes toward food, weight and dieting. Annotation © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Pt. 1The problem1I want to lose weight12The therapist trap37Pt. 2The treatment3Principles of the non-diet approach754Obstacles1175Emotions1616Body image1917Treatment considerations241Pt. 3The solution8Redefining health2719Changing the world ... a little bit at a time321App. AFood house fantasy365App. BBuilding a positive body image367App. C6-Week group369App. DFeeding our children373App. ESample letter375App. FAssessing your size attitudes377App. GWeight loss myths381App. HThe tenets of health at every size385
\ From the Publisher"Learning to eat with hunger, to relish food and to enjoy one's body is our birthright. Beyond a Shadow of a Diet explains how the individual can begin to live in harmony with food and gives therapists the tools to better help those for whom eating has become, too often, a source of anguish into a pleasurable and reassuring part of life." - Susie Orbach, London School of Economics, UK\ \
