First published more than twenty years ago, with almost 150,000 copies sold, The Golden Cage is still the classic book on anorexia nervosa, for patients, parents, mental health trainees, and senior therapists alike. Writing in direct, jargon-free style, often quoting her patients' descriptions of their own experience of illness and recovery, Bruch describes the relentless pursuit of thinness and the search for superiority in self-denial that characterizes anorexia nervosa. She emphasizes the importance of early diagnosis and offers guidance on danger signs. Little-known when this...

This dynamic health-and-wellness education program for girls was developed at the Harvard Medical School by a leading clinician and acclaimed curriculum designer. It addresses critical issues of body preoccupation and reduces the risk for girls in grades 3-8 from developing eating disorders. It emphasized personal power and overall mental and physical well-being.

This volume features a variety of prevention strategies, programmes and approaches concerning the prevention of eating disorders. It describes prevention at the societal, institutional, familial and individual levels, and also focuses on increasing resilience and protective factors.