Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence From Her Eating Disorder And How You Can Too

Author: Jenni Schaefer

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Price : $29.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780071422987
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education
Imprint : McGraw-Hill Education
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Weight (g) : 0.283
Publication date : January 2004
Dimensions : 210mm X 139mm X 16mm
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Author : Jenni Schaefer
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Language : English
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This book provides a unique new approach to treating eating disorders. Eight million women in the United States suffer from anorexia nervosa and/or bulimia. For these women, the road to recovery is a rocky one. Many succumb to their eating disorders. "Life Without Ed" offers hope to all those who suffer from these often deadly disorders. For years, author Jennifer Schaefer lived with both anorexia and bulimia. She credits her successful recovery to the technique she learned from her psychologist, Thom Rutledge. This groundbreaking book illustrates Rutledge's technique. As in the author's case, readers are encouraged to think of an eating disorder as if it were a distinct being with a personality of its own. Further, they are encouraged to treat the disorder as a relationship rather than as a condition. Schaefer named her eating disorder Ed; her recovery involved "breaking up" with Ed. She shares the points of view of both patient and therapist in this approach to treatment; helps people see the disease as a relationship from which they can distance themselves; and techniques to defeat negative thoughts that plague eating disorder patients.

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