Recovery from Eating Disorders (eBook)

Greta Noordenbos is a Senior Researcher in the Department of Clinical Psychology, Leiden University, the Netherlands. Founder of the Dutch Commission for the Prevention of Eating Disorders, she has contributed to health policy in the field and has co-edited Dutch language titles Handbook of Eating Disorders (2008) and The Prevention of Eating Disorders (1998).

"Overall, this is a very readable book that will be useful to
both early-career and experienced clinical psychologists who want
to develop strategies for their clinical work and understand the
service-user position whilst benefitting from up-to-date research
and developments in the eating disorder field." (The
British Psychological Society, 1 August 2013)





Greta Noordenbos has written a guidebook for the journey of
recovery from eating disorder. The road to recovery is often long,
arduous, bewildering and frightening. Patients and their
families and friends would be well advised to carry and consult
this book along the way. Like its author, the book is warm
and hopeful in tone whilst being knowledgeable and realistic and
above all trustworthy.--Professor Bob Palmer, University of
Leicester, UK

Overall I believe this is a wonderful book for both sufferers
and their families and it will be very helpful for beating the
eating disorder.--Johann Vanderlin, University
Psychiatric Center KULeuven, Belgium

Rather than promoting a particular treatment approach, this book
takes us on a journey through stages of an eating disorder, using
experiences and insights from those who have successfully emerged
from the darkness of their disorder. An excellent resource for
those perplexed by eating disorders: professionals, patients and
loved ones.--Anthea Fursland, Principal Clinical
Psychologist, Eating Disorders Programme, Centre for Clinical
Interventions (CCI), Australia

This is a remarkable and very valuable book. In the format of
an extensive piece of qualitative research, based on many
interviews with people with a history of an eating disorder, the
author has created an immensely readable account of the genesis,
progress and recovery from it. This account is supported by a
strongly referenced basis in the research literature. Furthermore
the author does not simply describe the process of the eating
behaviour, but explores the growth of the person that was missing
to begin with and now will be necessary for full recovery. She
investigates developing self-esteem, expressing emotions,
developing social relationships, providing the template for full
recovery, not simply the return to more normal eating patterns.
This book is entirely suitable for clients who will certainly
recognise themselves in its pages, but is also valuable for
clinicians for whom this is as clear an account as you could hope
for, of the factors involved in an eating disorder.--Julia
Buckroyd, Emeritus Professor of Counselling, University of
Hertfordshire