Eating Disorder Resources:
Recommended Books
see gurze.net or other eating disorder sites for more
- Somebody to Love, A Guide to Loving the Body You Have, Leslea Newman, 1991 (Journal writing suggestions oriented toward changing your relationship to your body and food. Out of print but lots of used books available at low cost
- Father Hunger: Fathers, Daughters & Food, Margo Maine, Ph.D., 1991. (On absence of nourishing relationship to the father in many individuals with eating disorders and the way socio-cultural norms perpetuates this absence; non-blaming, solutions for those with eating disorders and their fathers and mothers.)
- The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation, Marion Woodman, 1985 (For those interested in a Jungian and archetypal feminine approach to healing and transformation of eating and body problems.)
- A Hunger So Wide and So Deep, B.W. Thompson. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1995. (Multicultural perspective on body image and eating disorders.)