Links:

www.about-face.org
An interesting website about media and body image

www.edreferral.com/index.html
Eating Disorder referral and information website

www.nedic.ca
National Eating Disorder Information Centre
information on eating disorders and weight preoccupation

http://www.wliw.org/healthyminds
A great video series on mental illnesses and neurological disorders, including eating disorders and OCD

http://www.something-fishy.org/
Website on eating disorders

http://www.brainphysics.com/
Information, education, and support for obsessive compulsive spectrum disorders

http://www.gurze.com/
A fantastic resource for books and other publications on eating disorders

http://demo.fb.se/e/girlpower/retouch/retouch/index.html

http://www.jeankilbourne.com/

http://caringonline.com/

www.jessieshope.org
Jessie's Hope Society - Fomerly Awareness and Networking around Disordered Eating (ANAD)

http://www.bcmhas.ca/SupportCentre/Kelty/default.htm

http://www.lookingglassbc.com/

http://www.geneenroth.com/
One of my favourite authors on eating and body image

http://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/Default.aspx
Positive Psychology

http://www.befrienders.org/
Crisis counselling and suicide prevention

www.recovery-inc.com
Self-help organization using cognitive techniques

http://www.enneagramworldwide.com/

http://www.fitbrains.com/

http://www.dana.org/

http://bfc.positscience.com/

http://www.happy-neuron.com/

http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/index_i.html

http://www.mindgains.org/

http://www.psychologists.bc.ca/
The BC Psychological Association

http://www.brewstersociety.com/index.html
The beautiful and fascinating world of kaleidoscopes

 

Booklist

Eating Disorders and Body Image

Alexander-Mott, L. & Lumsden, B. (eds.) (1994). Understanding eating disorders: Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and obesity. Taylor & Francis.

Berg, F. (1997). Afraid to eat: Children and teens in weight crisis. Hettinger, ND: Healthy Weight Publishing Network.

Bruni, F. (2009). Born round: The secret history of a full-time eater. NY: Penguin Books.

Chernin, K. (1981).The obsession: Reflections on the tyranny of slenderness. New York: Harper & Row.

Chernin, K. (1985). The hungry self: Women, eating, and identity. NY: Times Books.

Claude-Pierre, P. (1997). The secret language of eating disorders. NY: Random House.

Jacobs Brumberg, J. (1997). The body project: An intimate history of American girls. NY: Random House.

Johnston A. (2000). Eating in the light of the moon: How women can transform their relationship with food through myths, metaphors, and storytelling. Gurze Books.

Kano, S. (1989). Making peace with food. New York: Harper & Row.

Levy, A. (2005). Female chauvinist pigs: Women and the rise of raunch culture. NY: Simon & Schuster.

Liu, A. (2008). Gaining: The truth about life after eating disorders. Wellness Central.

Natenshon, A. (1999). When your child has an eating disorder: A step-by-step workbook for parents and other caregivers. Jossey-Bass.

Pipher, M. (1995). Hunger pains: The modern woman's tragic quest for thinness. NY: Ballantine Books.

Reindl, S.M. (2001). Sensing the self: Women’s recovery from bulimia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Roth, G. (2010). Women food and god. New York: Scribner.

Roth, G. (1991). When food is love. New York: Dutton.

Roth, G. (2004). Breaking free from emotional eating. New York: Plume.

Siegel, M., Brisman, J. Weinshel, M. (2009). Surviving an eating disorder, third edition: Strategies for family and friends. NY: Collins Living.

Wachter, A. & Marcus, M. (1999). The don’t diet, live-it workbook: Healing food, weight and body issues. Carlsbad, CA: Gurze Books.

Wolfe, N. (1991). The beauty myth: How images of beauty are used against women. NY: W. Morrow.

 

Psychotherapy Theory and Workbooks

Bourne, E. (2005). The anxiety and phobia workbook (4th ed.). Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, Inc.

Burns, D. (1999). Feeling good: The new mood therapy revised and updated. NY: Harper.

Burns, D. (1999). The feeling good handbook. NY: Plume.

Davis, M., Eshelman, E., McKay, M. (2008). The relaxation and stress reduction workbook (6th ed.), Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, Inc.

Ellis, A. (2004). Rational emotive behavior therapy: It works for me - it can work for you. Prometheus Books.

Ellis. A. (1975). A guide to rational living. NY: Wilshire Book Company.

Frankl, V. (2006). Man’s search for meaning. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.

Seligman, M. (2002). Authentic happiness. NY: Simon & Schuster.

Yalom, I. (2002). The gift of therapy. NY: HarperCollins.

 

Brain and Biology of Behavior

Ackerman, D. (2005). An alchemy of mind: The marvel and mystery of the brain. Scribner.

Angier, N. (2000). Woman: An intimate geography . Anchor.

Doidge, N. (2007). The brain that changes itself. NY: Viking Penguin.

Howard, P. (2006). The owner’s manual for the brain: Everyday applications from mind-brain research (3rd ed.). Bard Press.

Kabat-Zinn, J. (1990). Full catastrophe living: Using the wisdom of your body and mind to face stress, pain, and illness. NY: Dell Publishing.

Kuhn, C., Swartzwelder, S., & Wilson, W. (2008). Buzzed: The straight facts about the most used and abused drugs from alcohol to ecstasy (3rd ed.). W.W. Norton & Co.

Ornstein, R. (1995). The roots of the self: Unraveling the mystery of who we are. NY: HarperCollins.

Ornstein, R. & Sobel, D. (1990). Healthy pleasures. Da Capo Press.

Sacks, O. (2004). Vintage Sacks. Vintage.

Weil, A. & Rosen, W. (2004). From chocolate to morphine: Everything you need to know about mind-altering drugs. Mariner Books.

 

Fiction

Davies, R. (1983). The Deptford trilogy. Penguin Books.

Frey, J. (2003). A million little pieces. Anchor.

Yalom, I. (1989). Love’s executioner and other tales of psychotherapy. NY: Basic Books.

Yalom, I. (1992). When Nietzsche wept. NY: Basic Books.

 

Self-Understanding

Capacchione, L. (1979). The creative journal: The art of finding yourself. Athens, OH: Swallow Press.

Dellasega, C. (2005). Mean girls grown up. NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Ferrucci, P. (1982). What we may be: Techniques for psychological and spiritual growth through psychosynthesis. Los Angeles, CA: Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc.

Gilbert, E. (2006). Eat, pray, love. NY: Penguin Books.

Palmer, H. (1988). The Enneagram: Understanding yourself and the others in your life. San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins.

Progoff, I. 1992). At a journal workshop: Writing to access the power of the unconscious and evoke creative ability. NY: Jeremy Tarcher.

Robinson, K. (2009). The element: How finding your passion changes everything. Viking USA.

Schierse Leonard, L. (1982). The wounded woman: Healing the father daughter relationship. Boston, MA: Shambhala Publications, Inc.

Wiseman, R. (2002). Queen bees & wannabes: Helping your daughter survive cliques, gossip, boyfriends & other realities of adolescence. NY: Three Rivers Press.

Zukav, G. (1989). The seat of the soul. NY: Simon & Schuster.

 

Misc.

Ackerman, D. (2002). Cultivating delight: A natural history of my garden. Harper Perennial.

Arguelles, J., Arguelles, M., Trungpa, C. (1995). Mandala. Shambhala.

Baker, C. (2002). Kaleidoscope artistry. C&T Publishing.

Hobbs, T. (1999). Shocking beauty. Periplus Editions.

Hobbs, T. (2006). The jewel box garden. Timber Press.

Nadelstern, P. (2001). Snowflakes and quilts. C&T Publishing.

Nadelstern, P. (2008). Kaleidoscope quilts: An artist’s journey continues. C&T Publishing.
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