Self-help books: Eating disorders and problems

There are many other good and helpful books that can be accessed either from libraries, bookshops, online, some GP surgeries etc, therefore the books listed below are just a few of a vast selection available, which may be of some use. It will be important to take into consideration that self-help reading can be very subjective and depends on personal circumstances.

Perfect Women: Hidden Fears of Inadequacy and the Drive to Perform
Collette Dowling, Fontana, 1990

Coping with Bulimia
Barbara French, Thorsons, 1994

Anorexics on Anorexia
Edited by Rosemary Shelley, Jessica Kingsley, 1997

Eating Your Heart Out
Julia Buckroyd, Macdonald, 1989

Susie Orbach on Eating: Change Your Eating, Change Your Life
Susie Orbach, Penguin, 2002

Golden Cage: The Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa
Hilde Bruch, Vintage, 1978

The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa and the Repressed Feminine
Marion Woodman, Inter City Books, 1980

How to Survive Anorexia
Peter Lambley, Frederick Muller, 1983

Anorexia Nervosa: A Guide for Sufferers and their Families
R L Palmer, Penguin, 1980

Anorexia and Bulimia
Julia Buckroyd, Chrysalis Books, 1996

Breaking Free from Emotional Eating
Geneen Roth, Plume books, 2004

Self-Help Approaches for Obesity and Eating Disorders: Research and Practice
Edited by Janet Latner, Routledge, 2007

 Anorexia Nervosa and The Wish to Change
A.H. Crisp, N. Joughin, C. Halek & Bowyer, Psychology Press, 1999

 Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia - How to Help
Marilyn Duker & Robert Slade, Open University Press, 2002

 Overcoming Binge Eating
Christopher Fairburn, Guilford press, 1995

 Overcoming Anorexia Nervosa
Chris Freeman & Peter Cooper, Constable & Robinson, 2001

Fat is a Feminist Issue (Books I & II)
Susie Orbach, Arrow, 1998