Customer Reviews

The Eating Disorder Sourcebook : A Comprehensive Guide to the Causes, Treatments, and Prevention of Eating Disorders

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This is an excellent source for those who already have some knowledge of eating disorders and want a more in depth look at the behaviors and histories often associated with them. For those who are new to the subject, I recommend Mary Pipher's book Hunger Pains.

As a student in the behavioral studies curriculum, this book has given me a tremendous amount of valuable information and insight into the field of eating disorders. It is very clear and reader-friendly!

This is a good book, if you're looking for the more informative aspects of all eating disorders. The writing is very dry, does not include emotion, and is meant for educational purposes.This book was an easy read, not too much technical jargon to sort through. For what it is, it is a good book, though I'm sure there are other books on the topic that go further in depth into the details of each seperate disorder. This book shortly touched on various types of disorders, as opposed to really digging into each one.

This very thick book is full of detailed research, and chock full of studies, but completely devoid of answers to questions about why one submits to eating disorders. I bought it trying to gain some personal insight as to why I felt ruled by this behavior, and after reading this tome, am still in the dark. If you want to do a research paper and site studies, this book is for you, but if you want some insight as to what makes someone give into the compulsive/addictive behavior, definitely look elsewhere.
I gave it two stars because I didn't know how else to rate it. It was completely not what I thought it was.