Recommended Reading:

Surviving an Eating Disorder: Perspectives and Strategies for Family and Friends, Revised Edition
Michelle Siegel, Ph.D., Judith Brisman, Ph.D., & Margot Weinshel, Ph.D.
Discusses the psychological and behavioral aspects of eating disorders, pharmacology, and family therapy, with an emphasis on bringing it out in the open, seeking help, coping with anger and denial, developing a healthier relationship and guidance for making the situation better.

Father Hunger: Fathers, Daughters, and Food
Margo Maine, Ph.D.
"Father Hunger" is the emptiness experienced by women whose fathers are/were emotionally absent, a void that can lead to unrealistic body image, yo-yo dieting, food fears and disordered eating. Helps fathers understand how our culture makes their role difficult. Includes practical solutions for helping families reconnect.

Bulimia: A Guide to Recovery, Fifth Edition
Lindsey Hall & Leigh Cohn
This guidebook offers a complete understanding of bulimia and a plan for recovery. This revised edition has updated all information, and has added material on men and bulimia, sexual trauma, body image, relationships. Useful for therapists, educators, bulimics, and their loved-ones.

Anorexia: A Guide to Recovery
Lindsey Hall & Monika Ostroff
This personal guidebook for understanding and overcoming anorexia nervosa includes answers to commonly asked questions, the author's personal story, specific things to do that have worked for others; information on healthy eating and weight; suggestions for how to stay committed; and a special section for parents and loved ones.

Overcoming Binge Eating
Christopher Fairburn
An authoritative and accessible self-help program for individuals with binge eating problems. Offers guidance for overcoming the urge to binge, establishing stable, healthy eating habits, and reducing the risk of relapse.

Eating in the Light of the Moon: How women can transform their relationships with food through myths, metaphors, and storytelling.
Anita Johnston, Ph.D.
By weaving practical insights and exercises through a rich tapestry of multicultural myths, ancient legends, and folktales, Johnston teaches women to free themselves from disordered eating by finding the metaphors hidden in the richness of their own life stories.

Beyond the Looking Glass: Daily Devotions for Overcoming Anorexia and Bulimia.
By Remuda Ranch
This Christian devotional combines personal insights, short prayers, and scripture to create a supportive and encouraging tool for individuals recovering from anorexia and bulimia.

Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation
Steven Levenkron, Ph.D.
Levenkron unravels the self-mutilators mindset, explains why the disorder manifests in self-harming behaviors, and describes how the sufferer can be helped. Through case-studies and conversations with his patients, the profile of the self-mutilator emerges, and he offers skills that must be learned in order to overcome this baffling affliction.

The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Dan B. Allender; Publisher: NavPress Publishing Group
An excellent resource written from a Christian perspective. Helps victims survive, overcome, and thrive.

Rapha's 12-Step Program for Overcoming Eating Disorders.
By Robert S. McGee and William Drew Mountcastle
Publisher: Rapha/Word Publishing
Rapha, a Christian-based treatment program uses a biblically-based 12-step approach for anorexia, bulimia, and compulsive overeating.
This book is out-of-print but can be ordered through www.abebooks.com

Hope, Help, and Healing for Eating Disorders
Gregory L. Jantz, Ph.D.
This self-help guide to overcoming eating disorders covers family ties, food addiction, abuse, anger, guilt, pride, control and other underlying issues. With passion and honesty, Dr. Jantz integrates the emotional relational, physical and spiritual aspects of recovery into a practical plan for healing and growth.

Making Weight: Healing Men's Conflicts with Food, Weight, Shape & Appearance
Arnold Andersen, M.D., Leigh Cohn, M.A.T., Thomas Holbrook, M.D.
This is the first book to explore why so many of today's men are experiencing problems that have traditionally been considered "women's issues." It offers practical solutions for men who are suffering from anorexia, bulimia, compulsive overeating, excessive exercise, steroid abuse, sexual uncertainty, or body dissatisfaction.

Intuitive Eating: A Recovery Book for the Chronic Dieter
Evelyn Tribole M.S., R.D. and Elyse Resch M.S., R.D.
This program will help readers equate feeling good with health, not weight loss, understand that fat-free is not automatically nutritious, say goodbye to counting calories and fat rams, and recognize that achieving a healthy natural weight and accepting your body are not mutually exclusive.

Boundaries: When to say Yes, When to Say No, To Take Control of Your Life
Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend
The Gold Medallion award-winning Christian book, by two psychologists who've written a number of self-help guides, offers a realistic, compassionate plan for setting healthy boundaries with family, friends, and co-workers.
The Scarred Soul: Understanding & Ending Self-Inflicted Violence
Tracy Alderman, Ph.D.
Published by New Harbinger Press
A useful self-help guide for self-injurers and their loved ones.

The Obsessive-Compulsive Trap: Real Help for a Real Disorder
Mark E. Crawford, Ph.D.
The Obsessive-Compulsive Trap is a down-to-earth and informative resource on obsessive-compulsive disorder from a solid Christian perspective. Dr. Mark Crawford teaches how to diagnose OCD and describes the effects it has on more than 120 million people worldwide. Drawing from an expansive clinical background, he illustrates each chapter with clear examples of how men, women and children have found real solutions for dealing with OCD. It's time to get informed and start making changes in society's skewed understanding of this shattering disorder.

Life Without Ed : How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder & How You Can Too
Jenni Schaeffer with Thom Rutledge
Jenni had been in an abusive relationship with Ed {her nickname for the eating disorder} for far too long. Then she met psychotherapist and author Thom Rutledge who taught her how to treat her eating disorder as a relationship, not a condition. By separating herself from her eating disorder, Jenni says goodbye to Ed forever. Inspiring, compassionate, and filled with practical exercises to help you break up with your own personal E.D., Life Without Ed provides new hope for the disorders that plague millions of women and young girls. This supportive, lifesaving book combines a patient's insights and experiences with a therapist's prescriptions for success to help you live a healthier life.

The Exercise Balance
Pauline S. Powers, M.D., Ron Thompson
This book explains how to find a balance between overtraining and inactivity when it comes to healthy exercise.  Readers learn how to develop their own personal plan for what is best for their unique body and situation.  Written by widely recognized experts in the field of eating disorders and athletics, it utilizes real-life examples as well and clinical studies to explain the psychological and health issues that can result from both too much exercise and too little.

Andrea's Voice...Silenced by Bulimia
Her Story and Her Mother's Journey Through Grief Toward Understanding 
 Doris Smeltzer with Andrea Lynn Smeltzer
This is the real-life story of Andrea Smeltzer, a vibrant and talented college student who died in her sleep at the age of nineteen after a one-year struggle with bulimia.