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From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls: History of Self-starvation
ISBN: 9780485241006 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Down the centuries, self-starvation has taken many morbid guises - in the extremes of religious fasting and the abstinence of the saints; in hunger strikes; in the exhibition of iving skeletons and hunger artists; in the fate of melancholica, hystericsm the possessed and bewitched. This strange story culminates in the 19th century labelling of anorexia nervosa, a condition which has since attracted a host of theories and explanations and a vast literature, the course of which a medical curiosityhas been transformed into a modern disease. In the history of psyhiatry this is a remarkable...
Down the centuries, self-starvation has taken many morbid guises - in the extremes of religious fasting and the abstinence of the saints; in hunger st...
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300,39 zł |
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Do You Use Food To Cope?: A Comprehensive 15-Week Program for Overcoming Emotional Overeating
ISBN: 9780595212804 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are You: Turning to food when you feel sad, overwhelmed or angry? Tired of struggling with your weight? Unhappy with your body and physical appearance? Consumed by cravings for high-fat and high-sugar foods when you are under stress? Ready to address the issues underlying your overeating? Willing to take the next 15 weeks to change your life? Then, DO YOU USE FOOD TO COPE? A Comprehensive 15-Week Program for Overcoming Emotional Overeating is for you Drawing upon years of research and clinical experience, Dr. Sheila H. Forman, Ph.D., clinical psychologist and eating disorder specialist, has...
Are You: Turning to food when you feel sad, overwhelmed or angry? Tired of struggling with your weight? Unhappy with your body and physical appearance...
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69,06 zł |
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Eating Disorders: Anatomy of a Social Epidemic
ISBN: 9780631214960 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In an extensively revised new edition of the successful Anorexia and Bulimia, Richard Gordon includes new information and discussion of the latest ideas in this rapidly growing research field. The past two decades have witnessed an enormous increase in the number of cases of eating disorders in industrial societies.
In an extensively revised new edition of the successful Anorexia and Bulimia, Richard Gordon includes new information and discussion of the la...
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227,91 zł |
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Golden Cage: The Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa, with a New Foreword by Catherine Steiner-Adair, Ed.D.
ISBN: 9780674005846 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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...
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...
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136,78 zł |
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The Social Construction of Anorexia Nervosa
ISBN: 9780761953098 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Julie Hepworth locates contemporary discourses of anorexia nervosa within their historical context, showing how current practices continue to be influenced by medicine, psychology, ideology and politics. She demonstrates that anorexia nervosa must be considered within the political, social and gendered relationships that continue to contribute to its definition. The book presents the need for a new conceptualization of anorexia nervosa which would draw on the insights of discourse theory, feminism and postmodernism to create new understandings of anorexia nervosa within contemporary health...
Julie Hepworth locates contemporary discourses of anorexia nervosa within their historical context, showing how current practices continue to be influ...
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285,42 zł |
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100 Questions & Answers about Eating Disorders
ISBN: 9780763745004 / Angielski / Miękka / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Approximately 3 Percent Of All Females Suffer From Anorexia And Up To 4 Percent Suffer From Bulimia In Their Lifetimes. Whether You're A Newly Diagnosed Patient With An Eating Disorder, Or Are A Friend Or Relative Of Someone Suffering From An Eating Disorder, This Book Offers Help. The Only Text Available To Provide Both The Doctor's And Patient's Views, 100 Questions & Answers About Eating Disorders Gives You Authoritative, Practical Answers To Your Questions. Written By An Expert On The Subject, With
Approximately 3 Percent Of All Females Suffer From Anorexia And Up To 4 Percent Suffer From Bulimia In Their Lifetimes. Whether You're A Newly Diagnos...
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148,61 zł |
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Emotional Eating: What You Need to Know Before Starting Your Next Diet
ISBN: 9780787940478 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This revealing and useful book tells how emotions can cause bad eating habits and provides an effective antidote to radical crash diets. The author uses a cognitive-behavioral approach, and offers an encouraging alternative to current theories on the causes on overeating, such as psychopathology, addiction, or moral weakness. Emotional Eating shows how to identify individual patterns of emotional eating, and then tells readers how to respond to these patterns. Filled with tables charts, and self-assessment tests, Emotional Eating can help you learn self-control by identifying emotional...
This revealing and useful book tells how emotions can cause bad eating habits and provides an effective antidote to radical crash diets. The author us...
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203,50 zł |
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The Developmental Psychopathology of Eating Disorders: Implications for Research, Prevention, and Treatment
ISBN: 9780805817461 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although eating problems--ranging from body dissatisfaction and dieting to anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa--can begin and typically have their roots in childhood, theory and research in developmental psychopathology and developmental psychology have not received substantial attention in eating disorders research. This book provides crucial background material from both fields, and then makes direct applications to numerous aspects of the field of eating disorders including theory, research, treatment, and primary prevention.
This book was born out of a transaction between frustration... Although eating problems--ranging from body dissatisfaction and dieting to anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa--can begin and typically have their roo...
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650,97 zł |
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Conversations About Illness : Family Preoccupations With Bulimia
ISBN: 9780805817560 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text uses conversation analysis methodology to explore the response of family members to eating disorders. The result is a glimpse into the anxieties, wishes, and resistences associated with such disorders. The book concentrates on the problems of bulimia and grandparent caregiving.
This text uses conversation analysis methodology to explore the response of family members to eating disorders. The result is a glimpse into the anxie...
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726,09 zł |
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Conversations About Illness: Family Preoccupations With Bulimia
ISBN: 9780805817577 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The grandmother-granddaughter conversation examined in this book makes explicit what the detailed study of interaction reveals about two social problems--'bulumia' and 'grandparent caregiving.' For the first time, systematic attentions is given to interactional activities through which family members display ordinary yet contradictory concerns about health and illness. Through analysis of a single audio-recorded and transcribed conversation, the altogether pervasive and often troubled co-existence of family medical predicaments is revealed by treating families as primordial institutional...
The grandmother-granddaughter conversation examined in this book makes explicit what the detailed study of interaction reveals about two social proble...
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195,24 zł |
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Treating Eating Disorders: Ethical, Legal, and Personal Issues
ISBN: 9780814787533 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The treatment of eating disorders remains controversial, protracted, and often unsuccessful. Therapists face a number of impediments to the optimal care fo their patients, from transference to difficulties in dealing with the patient's family. Treating Eating Disorders addresses the pressure and responsibility faced by practicing therapists in the treatment of eating disorders. Legal, ethical, and interpersonal issues involving compulsory treatment, food refusal and forced feeding, managed care, treatment facilities, terminal care, and how the gender of the therapist affects... The treatment of eating disorders remains controversial, protracted, and often unsuccessful. Therapists face a number of impediments to the optimal... |
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513,92 zł |
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Treating Eating Disorders: Ethical, Legal, and Personal Issues
ISBN: 9780814787540 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The treatment of eating disorders remains controversial, protracted, and often unsuccessful. Therapists face a number of impediments to the optimal care fo their patients, from transference to difficulties in dealing with the patient's family. Treating Eating Disorders addresses the pressure and responsibility faced by practicing therapists in the treatment of eating disorders. Legal, ethical, and interpersonal issues involving compulsory treatment, food refusal and forced feeding, managed care, treatment facilities, terminal care, and how the gender of the therapist affects... The treatment of eating disorders remains controversial, protracted, and often unsuccessful. Therapists face a number of impediments to the optimal... |
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162,55 zł |
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The Prevention of Eating Disorders: Ethical, Legal, and Personal Issues
ISBN: 9780814787984 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few topics in the field of eating disorders engender as much emotional debate as that of prevention. Too often, preventative plans against eating disorders are highly praised, but not carried out in practical actions. It is often easier and more immediately fulfilling to focus on treatment and not to wait for the long-term effects of prevention, despite the fact that treatment alone does nothing to reduce the incidence of eating disorders. The Prevention of Eating Disorders offers a survey of modern approaches to eating disorder prevention, arguing that models of prevention... Few topics in the field of eating disorders engender as much emotional debate as that of prevention. Too often, preventative plans against eating d... |
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400,60 zł |
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The Prevention of Eating Disorders: Ethical, Legal, and Personal Issues
ISBN: 9780814787991 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few topics in the field of eating disorders engender as much emotional debate as that of prevention. Too often, preventative plans against eating disorders are highly praised, but not carried out in practical actions. It is often easier and more immediately fulfilling to focus on treatment and not to wait for the long-term effects of prevention, despite the fact that treatment alone does nothing to reduce the incidence of eating disorders. The Prevention of Eating Disorders offers a survey of modern approaches to eating disorder prevention, arguing that models of prevention... Few topics in the field of eating disorders engender as much emotional debate as that of prevention. Too often, preventative plans against eating d... |
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130,15 zł |
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Hunger So Wide and So Deep: A Multiracial View of Women's Eating Problems
ISBN: 9780816624355 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first of its kind, A Hunger So Wide and So Deep challenges the popular notion that eating problems occur only among white, well-to-do, heterosexual women. Becky W. Thompson shows us how race, class, sexuality, and nationality can shape women's eating problems. Based on in-depth life history interviews with African-American, Latina, and lesbian women, her book chronicles the effects of racism, poverty, sexism, acculturation, and sexual abuse on women's bodies and eating patterns. A Hunger So Wide and So Deep dispels popular stereotypes of anorexia and bulimia as symptoms of vanity and...
The first of its kind, A Hunger So Wide and So Deep challenges the popular notion that eating problems occur only among white, well-to-do, heterosexua...
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90,08 zł |
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Feeding Anorexia: Gender and Power at a Treatment Center
ISBN: 9780822331209 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Feeding Anorexia challenges prevailing assumptions regarding the notorious difficulty of curing anorexia nervosa. Through a vivid chronicle of treatments at a state-of-the-art hospital program, Helen Gremillion reveals how the therapies participate unwittingly in culturally dominant ideals of gender, individualism, physical fitness, and family life that have contributed to the dramatic increase in the incidence of anorexia in the United States since the 1970s. She describes how strategies including the meticulous measurement of patients' progress in terms of body weight and calories...
Feeding Anorexia challenges prevailing assumptions regarding the notorious difficulty of curing anorexia nervosa. Through a vivid chronicle of ...
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115,12 zł |
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Feeding Anorexia: Gender and Power at a Treatment Center
ISBN: 9780822331339 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Feeding Anorexia challenges prevailing assumptions regarding the notorious difficulty of curing anorexia nervosa. Through a vivid chronicle of treatments at a state-of-the-art hospital program, Helen Gremillion reveals how the therapies participate unwittingly in culturally dominant ideals of gender, individualism, physical fitness, and family life that have contributed to the dramatic increase in the incidence of anorexia in the United States since the 1970s. She describes how strategies including the meticulous measurement of patients' progress in terms of body weight and calories...
Feeding Anorexia challenges prevailing assumptions regarding the notorious difficulty of curing anorexia nervosa. Through a vivid chronicle of ...
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445,66 zł |
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Males With Eating Disorders
ISBN: 9780876305560 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contributions from researchers and clinicians in the US and abroad who have worked closely with males suffering from eating disorders address the physiological, psychological, cultural and existential aspects of these generally neglected but apparently increasing problems. Annotation copyright Book
Contributions from researchers and clinicians in the US and abroad who have worked closely with males suffering from eating disorders address the phys...
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330,45 zł |
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Preventing Eating Disorders: A Handbook of Interventions and Special Challenges
ISBN: 9780876309681 / Angielski / Twarda / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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.
This volume features a variety of prevention strategies, programmes and approaches concerning the prevention of eating disorders. It describes prevent...
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625,94 zł |
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Creating Bodies: Eating Disorders as Self-Destructive Survival
ISBN: 9780881634389 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Amid the welter of clinical studies, memoirs, and other death-defying tales of eating disorders, we remain unclear about the relationships among trauma, anorexia, and bulimia, and about the psychological pathways to recovery. Creating Bodies offers the gripping story of healing and transformation detailed in one woman's diaries. Hannah wrote 18 diaries between the ages of 14 and 32. In the excerpts reprinted herein, we watch Hannah navigate violent adolescent friendships, descend into anorexia and bulimia, marry an abusive man, struggle to recover memories of sexual abuse, and finally... Amid the welter of clinical studies, memoirs, and other death-defying tales of eating disorders, we remain unclear about the relationships among tr... |
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235,31 zł |