Book Reviews

Recommended Reading for Maudsley
If you are a parent who is considering or using Family-Based Treatment in the treatment of your teen, these are the books for you.

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Review of Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher, Ph.D. - a book about the challenges adolescent girls face in American culture.

Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia
Review of Brave Girl Eating by Harriet Brown - a personal account of her family's journey to help her daughter recover through Family-Based Treatment.

Eating With Your Anorexic
Review of Eating With Your Anorexic by Laura Collins - a personal account of her family's journey to help her daughter recover through Family-Based Treatment.

Help Your Teenager Beat An Eating Disorder
Review of Help Your Teenager Beat An Eating Disorder by James Lock, MD, PhD & Daniel LeGrange, PhD.

I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn't)
Review of Brené Brown's I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn't): Telling The Truth About Perfectionism, Inadequacy & Power - a book about shame & shame-resilience.

Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works
A review of Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works by Evelyn Tribole, MS, RD & Elyse Resch, MS, RD, FADA.

Life Without Ed
Review of Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too by Jenni Schaefer & Thom Rutledge.

The Gifts of Imperfection
Review of The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown - a book about living a joyful, congruent, wholehearted life and letting go of what is getting in the way.

Shapesville
Review of the children's book, Shapesville by Andy Mills & Becky Osborn - a book that encourages positive body image in young boys and girls.