Books about Eating Disorders in General:
Fairburn, Christopher, and Kelly Brownell, eds. Eating Disorders and Obesity. New York: Guilford Press, 2002.
Lock, James and Daniel LaGrange. Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder. New York: Guilford Press, 2005.
-----, and Christopher Dare, W. Agras. Treatment Manual for Anorexia Nervosa: A Family-Based Approach. New York: Guilford Press, 2002.
Biographies & Memoirs of Eating Disorders:
Armstrong, Karen. The Spiral Staircase. New York: Anchor Books, 2005.
Fonda, Jane. My Life So Far. New York: Random House, 2005.
Gray, Francine du Plessix. Simone Weil. New York: Viking Penguin, 2001.
Gottlieb, Lori. Stick Figure. New York: Berkley Books, 2001.
Knapp, Caroline. Appetites: Why Women Want. New York: Counterpoint, 2003.
------ . Drinking: A Love Story. New York: Delta, 1996.
----- . The Merry Recluse: a Life in Essays. New York: Counterpoint, 2004.
------ . Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs. New York: Delta, 1998.
Harrison, Kathryn. The Kiss. New York: Random House, 1997.
------ . The Mother Knot. New York: Random House, 2004.
Hornbacher, Marya. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia New York: HarperCollins, 1998.
Leaska, Mitchell. Granite and Rainbow: The Hidden Life of Virginia Woolf. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. 1998.
Maychick, Diana. Audrey Hepburn: An Intimate Portrait. New York: Birch Lane Press, 1993.
Maynard, Joyce. At Home in the World. New York: Picador, 1998.
Reiland, Rachel. Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder. Center City, MN: Hazelden, 2004.
Weiner, Jessica. A Very Hungry Girl. Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, 2003.
Books about Anorexia Nervosa:
Bruch, Hilde. The Golden Cage. Cambridge: Harvard U. Press, 2001. [Originally published: Harvard U. Press, 1978]
Levenkron, Steven. Anatomy of Anorexia. New York: W.W. Norton, 2001.
Books about Bulimia:
Reindl, Sheila. Sensing the Self: Women’s Recovery from Bulimia. Cambridge: Harvard U. Press, 2001.
Books about the History of Eating Disorders:
Bell, Rudolph, Holy Anorexia. Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1985.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa. New York: Vintage, 2000.
Books about Identity, Mood, and Mindful Awareness:
Begley, Sharon. Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain. New York: Ballantine Books, 2007.
Cloninger, Robert. Feeling Good: The Science of Well-Being. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. New York: Harper & Row, 1990.
Erikson, Erik. Identity: Youth and Crisis. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1968.
Fairbairn, WRD. Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Fromm, Erich. To Have or To Be? New York: Continuum, 2004.
Kramer, Peter D. Listening to Prozac. New York: Penguin Books, 1997.
Linehan, Marsha. Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. New York: Guilford Press, 1993.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Being and Nothingness. New York: Washington Square Press, 1992. [Originally published: Gallimard, 1943]
Solomon, Andrew. The Noonday Demon. New York: Scribner, 2001.
Viorst, Judith. Imperfect Control. New York: Free Press, 1998.
Winnicott, D.W. Home is Where We Start From. New York: W.W. Norton, 1986.
Books about Body Image and Food Policy:
Bordo, Susan. Unbearable Weight. 10th Ed. Berkeley: U. California Press, 2003.
Brownell, Kelly, and Katherine Horgen. Food Fight. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004.
Chernin, Kim. The Hungry Self . New York: HarperPerennial, 1994. [Originally published: Times Books, 1985]
-----. The Obsession. New York: HarperPerennial, 1994. [Originally published: Harper&Row, 1981]
Orbach, Susie. Hunger Strike. New York: W.W. Norton, 1986.
Orenstein, Peggy, Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap. New York: Anchor Books, 2000. [Originally published: Doubleday, 1994]
Pipher, Mary. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls. New York: Ballantine, 1994.
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