GAINING:
The Truth About Life
After Eating Disorders


Essays, Articles, & Nonfiction Works
by Aimee Liu

GAINING: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders
How do anorexia and bulimia impact life AFTER recovery? GAINING is one of the first books about eating disorders to connect the latest scientific insights to the personal truth of life before, during, and especially after anorexia and bulimia.
SOLITAIRE
America's first memoir of anorexia, and one of the earliest books about eating disorders, originally published in 1979
anthologies
Recent essays in great collections
Aimee joins a brilliant kaleidoscope of voices, including Julia Alvarez, Susan Cheever, Elizabeth Graver, Erica Jong, Aimee Liu, Bharati Mukherjee, ZZ Packer, and Marge Piercy.
RESOURCES
turning pain to COMPASSION, POWER, & PURPOSE
Discover the many ways others are using their voices, talents, and passions to turn suffering into creativity and hope.
Additional books about Eating Disorders
References cited in GAINING
Eating Disorders Support and Information
Links to websites and organizations that provide information and referrals.
Treatment Programs for Eating Disorders
These treatment facilities offer specialized programs for eating disorders, including men and women over age 21.



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Sources of Eating Disorders Support and Information


Anorexia Nervosa and Related Eating Disorders (www.anred.com)

The Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center (www.edreferral.com)

Gürze Books (www.gurze.com)

The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (www.anad.org)

The National Eating Disorders Association (www.nationaleatingdisorders.org)

The National Eating Disorder Information Centre (www.nedic.ca)

Something Fishy (www.something-fishy.org)

For information about specific therapies for eating disorders:


Dialectic Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)

The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (www.aabt.org),
The Behavioral Research & Therapy Clinics (www.brtc.psych.washington.edu)

The Maudsley Method (also called family-based treatment)

The Eating Disorders Program at the University of Chicago Hospitals (www.psychiatry.uchicago.edu/clinical/clinics/edp)

Equine Assisted Psychotherapy

The Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association (www.eagala.org)

Mindfulness (also called mindful awareness)

UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center (www.marc.ucla.edu)
The University of Massachusetts’s Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society (www.umassmed.edu/cfm)

Walden Behavioral Care
(www.WaldenBehavioralCare.com)

For information about public health policies on eating disorders:

The Eating Disorders Coalition for Research, Policy, & Action (www.eatingdisorderscoalition.org)

For help in teaching children to have a healthy body image

About-Face (www.About-Face.org)

Dads & Daughters (www.DadsAndDaughters.org)




Artwork by Nicole Havekost

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