Recommended Reading

Nearly all of the books below are available for purchase online at the website of Gürze Books, a publishing company founded in 1980 and specializing in information on eating disorders since 1980. Click the title of any book to launch the Gurze site in a new window.

Surviving an Eating Disorder — Perspectives and Strategies for Family & Friends

Overcoming Binge Eating

Binge Eating — Nature, Assessment, and Treatment

Big Fat Lies — The Truth about Your Weight and Your Health

The Don't Diet, Live-It! Workbook — Healing Food, Weight and Body Issues

Stop Out-of-Control Eating — The Big Heart Way to Create Strength Through Inner Peace

Body Prayers — Finding Body Peace

Eating in the Light of the Moon

The False Fat Diet — The Revolutionary 21-Day Program for Losing the Weight You Think Is Fat

The Tao of Eating — Feeding Your Soul Through Everyday Experiences with Food

Daily Affirmations for Compulsive Eaters

Body Wars — Making Peace with Women's Bodies

Dear Kids of Alcoholics — Guidebook for Counselors, Educators and Parents

Desperately Seeking Self — An Inner Guidebook for People with Eating Problems

Eating Disorders and Marriage — The Couple in Focus

Father Hunger — Fathers, Daughters & Food

Feeding the Hungry Heart

French Toast for Breakfast — Declaring Peace with Emotional Eating

The Invisible Woman — Confronting Weight Prejudice in America

The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook

Arts Therapies and Clients with Eating Disorders

Self-Esteem Comes in All Sizes — How to Be Happy and Healthy at Your Natural Weight

Self-Esteem — Tools for Recovery

Wake Up, I'm Fat!

Full Recovery I — (Audio Tape) The Personal Triumphs of Former Anorexics

Full Recovery II — (Audio Tape) The Personal Triumphs of Former Bulimics and Binge Eaters

Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating

Appetites — The Search for True Nourishment

Eating Disorders — Anatomy of a Social Epidemic (2nd Edition)

Looking Queer — Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Community

The Body Project — An Intimate History of American Girls

A Hunger So Wide and So Deep< — American women speak out on eating problems

Go Girls — Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention

When Girls Feel Fat — Helping Girls Through Adolescence

Teaching Body Confidence — A Comprehensive Curriculum for Girls

Making Weight — Men's Conflicts with Food, Weight, Shape and Appearance

The Adonis Complex — The Secret Crisis of Male Body Obsession

Boundaries — Where You End and I Begin

Dance Naked in Your Living Room — Handling Stress & Finding Joy!

Real Gorgeous — The Truth about Body & Beauty

Body Image Workbook — An 8-Step Program for Learning to Like Your Looks

Bodylove — Learning to Like Our Looks & Ourselves

Beyond The Looking Glass — Daily Devotions for Overcoming Anorexia and Bulimia

First You Cry — A Handbook of Hope for Families

Hand in Hand — Devotions for Encouraging Families through the Pain of a Daughter with an Eating Disorder

What Are You Hungry For? — Women, Food and Spirituality

The Zen of Eating — Ancient Answers to Modern Weight Problems

Mom, I Feel Fat! — Becoming Your Daughter's Ally in Developing a Healthy Body Image

When Your Child Has an Eating Disorder — A Step-by-Step Workbook for Parents and Caregivers

Outsmarting the Mother/Daughter