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Eating Disorder Book and Film Reviews

Explores current eating disorder literature and other media to provide quick access to solid and helpful materials.
Breaking the Spell of Binge Eating
If you're looking for a step-by-step to stop binge eating, Joanna Kortink's Breaking the Spell of Binge Eating will satisfy you - partially. But you may also find that in its flurry of exercises there is another kind of change that will impact you in more comprehensive ways.
It's Not About the Weight: Book Review
Susan Mendelsohn's It's Not About the Weight gives insight from an eating disorder therapist who has had an eating disorder herself.
Book Review: 101 Ways to Help Your Daughter Love Her Body
Loving the body -- giving it the kind of resources, care, and protection it needs -- is a practice we can easily neglect. 101 Ways to Help Your Daughter Love Her Body is a book written to help us change that. Does it succeed? Read a review from the About.com Eating Disorders Guide.
Life After Eating Disorders: Freedom or Fairy Tale?
Aimee Liu's Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders is a clear-eyed look at a confusing and seldom-treated subject. Eating disorder recovery doesn't stop when the disordered eating stops.
From Self-Harm to Self-Kindness
A first-person account of how cutting and self-injury interweave with eating disorders, Vanessa Vega's Comes the Darkness, Comes the Light gives hope for recovery.
Eating Disorder Documentary Offers Hope and More
Through True Eyes is an eating disorder film that tells the stories of three women and their recovery from eating disorders. It is a powerful film that gives an accurate view of the world of those who battle eating disorders.
Intuitive Eating for a Diet Alternative
Intuitive Eating is a way to escape the drag of eating problems and dieting. Read about a book that offers change to anyone whose eating is not what it could be.
More Than Dessert
Comments on Appetites: Why Women Want, a powerful and insightful book from someone who has been there (and back) herself.
The Influence of Fathers on Daughters With Eating Disorders
Margo Maine's Father Hunger turns the spotlight on the dads in the lives of those with eating disorders. It is an ambitious work and a rewarding read.
A Candid Look at Men and Eating Disorders
Men with eating disorders and body image disorders have few resources that speak directly to their situations. The authors of Making Weight normalize eating disorders in men and other body image struggles, filling the need with a book that is long overdue.
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