Recommended Reading for Bulimia

 
 
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There are lots of resources out there if you would like to understand your eating disorder better, or if you would like to make changes (by yourself or alongside therapy).

What approach works varies person to person, but we have included a range of books below, including a CBT approach, a dialectical behaviour therapy approach, and a compassion focussed approach. We have also included some links to some helpful resources:

Books

  • Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating and their Treatment - Professor Hubert Lacey, Dr Bryony Bamford & Amy Brown

  • Beating Your Eating Disorder: A Cognitive-Behavioural Self-Help Guide - Glenn Waller & colleagues

  • Overcoming Binge Eating - Christopher Fairburn

  • The Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Skills Workbook for Bulimia - Ellen Astrachan-Fletcher & Michael Maslar

  • Getting Better Bit(e) by Bit(e) - Ulrike Schmidt, Janet Treasure & June Alexander

  • The Compassionate Mind Approach to Beating Overeating - Ken Goss

  • Anorexia and Bulimia in the Family - Grainne Smith

Other Useful Resources

  • The Centre for Clinical Interventions: a website with self-help modules to help you address a range of eating disorder and body image issues using a CBT frame work

  • Recovery record: a useful app to help people with eating disorders monitor food and mood, with a recovery focus

 
 
 
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