Beating Your Eating Disorder: A Cognitive-Behavioral Self-Help Guide for Adult Sufferers and their Carers

Glenn Waller · Victoria Mountford · Rachel Lawson · Emma Gray · Helen Cordery · Hendrik Hinrichsen

Sep 2010 · Cambridge University Press

About this ebook

Do you or does someone you know, suffer from an eating disorder such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa or a less typical set of symptoms? The most effective, evidence-based treatment for adults with eating disorders is cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT). This book presents a highly effective self-help CBT programme for all eating disorders, in an accessible format. It teaches skills to sufferers and carers alike. This book is relevant to any sufferer, if: • You are not yet sure about whether to seek help • You are not sure where to find help • Your family doctor or others recommend that you try a self-help approach • You are waiting for therapy with a clinician, and want to get the best possible start to beating your eating disorder

About the author

Glenn Waller is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Vincent Square Eating Disorders Service, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust and Eating Disorders Section, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK.

Victoria Mountford is a Clinical Psychologist, Eating Disorders Service, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, London, UK.

Rachel Lawson is a Senior Clinical Psychologist, South Island Eating Disorders, Canterbury District Health Board, and is in private practice with the Anxiety Clinic and Centre for Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Emma Gray (nee Corstorphine) is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Oyster Counselling and Life Coaching and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK.

Helen Cordery is a dietician with around seventeen years of experience, twelve of which have been spent specialising in working with people with eating disorders. She is currently training to become an attachment-based psychotherapist.

Hendrik Hinrichsen is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the NHS, and is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust, London, UK.