Body Image Books

New and Published Books

1. Your Dieting Daughter

   Antidotes Parents can Provide for Body Dissatisfaction, Excessive Dieting, and Disordered Eating, 2nd Edition

   By Carolyn Costin

   Your Dieting Daughter is a must read for anyone wanting to help contribute to a young woman’s development of a healthy self and body esteem, whether she is 13 or 30. Costin has updated the first edition of this book to reflect her 15 additional years of expertise on dealing with the tricky issues...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
2. Cut Down to Size

   Achieving success with weight loss surgery

   By Jenny Radcliffe

   Cut Down to Size covers everything you need to know about bariatric surgery, from referral through to the challenges you may face after surgery. Most people who seek weight loss surgery have struggled for many years to control their eating, and have experienced increasing health limitations,...

   Published January 6th 2013 by Routledge
3. Nutrition Counseling in the Treatment of Eating Disorders

   2nd Edition

   By Marcia Herrin, Maria Larkin

   Marcia Herrin and Maria Larkin have collaborated on the second edition of Nutrition Counseling in the Treatment of Eating Disorders, infusing research-based approaches and their own clinically-refined tools for managing food and weight-related issues. New to this edition is a section on nutrition...

   Published December 2nd 2012 by Routledge
4. Decoding Anorexia

   How Breakthroughs in Science Offer Hope for Eating Disorders

   By Carrie Arnold

   Decoding Anorexia is the first and only book to explain anorexia nervosa from a biological point of view. Its clear, user-friendly descriptions of the genetics and neuroscience behind the disorder is paired with first person descriptions and personal narratives of what biological differences mean...

   Published September 26th 2012 by Routledge
5. Consumer Culture, Identity and Well-Being

   The Search for the 'Good Life' and the 'Body Perfect'

   By Helga Dittmar

   Series: European Monographs in Social Psychology

   Advertising, materialism and consumption are central aspects of contemporary Western culture. We are bombarded with idealised images of the perfect body, desirable consumer goods, and affluent lifestyles, yet psychology is only just beginning to take account of the profound influence these consumer...

   Published September 16th 2010 by Psychology Press
6. Under the Skin

   A Psychoanalytic Study of Body Modification

   By Alessandra Lemma

   Series: New Library of Psychoanalysis 'Beyond the Couch' series

   Alessandra Lemma - Winner of the Levy-Goldfarb Award for Child Psychoanalysis! Under the Skin considers the motivation behind why people pierce, tattoo, cosmetically enhance, or otherwise modify their body, from a psychoanalytic perspective. It discusses how the therapist can understand and help...

   Published February 16th 2010 by Routledge
7. Critical Feminist Approaches to Eating Dis/Orders

   Edited by Helen Malson, Maree Burns

   Over the past decade there have been significant shifts both in feminist approaches to the field of eating disorders and in the ways in which gender, bodies, body weight, body management and food are understood, represented and regulated within the dominant cultural milieus of the early...

   Published May 25th 2009 by Routledge
8. The Invisible Man

   A Self-help Guide for Men With Eating Disorders, Compulsive Exercise and Bigorexia

   By John F. Morgan

   Increasingly boys and men are suffering with eating disorders and related body image problems. Some have full-blown conditions such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating, compulsive exercising or bigorexia. Others are distressed by slightly lesser degrees of disordered eating or over-exercise...

   Published February 13th 2008 by Routledge
9. Overcoming Body Image Disturbance

   A Programme for People with Eating Disorders

   By Lorraine Bell, Jenny Rushforth

   People with eating disorders often exhibit serious misconceptions about their own body image. Overcoming Body Image Disturbance provides a treatment programme (piloted by the authors) for people with eating disorders who have a negative body image. The manual offers advice for therapists,...

   Published February 13th 2008 by Routledge
10. Body Image

    Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men, Women and Children, 2nd Edition

    By Sarah Grogan

    Sarah Grogan provides a comprehensive overview of the subject of body image, pulling together diverse research from the fields of psychology, sociology, media, and gender studies in men, women, and children. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the significant...

    Published July 19th 2007 by Routledge