Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview. Introduction: psychological responses to eating disorders and obesity: an overview / Julia Buckroyd and Sharon Rother -- The many meanings of food and their impact on eating behaviour / Jane Ogden -- Anorexia nervosa. Using an evidence-based approach to develop new tailored treatment for anorexia nervosa / Carolina Lopez ... [et al.] -- Eating disorders: breaking the intergenerational cycle through group therapy: the effects of the group experience / Sarah Barnett, Julia Buckroyd and Karen Windle -- Bulimia nervosa. Current thinking on working with people with bulimia nervosa and bulimic disorders / Glenn Waller -- Addressing emotions in the eating disorders: schema mode work / Emma Corstorphine -- Obesity and binge eating. Psychological group treatment for obese women / Julia Buckroyd and Sharon Rother -- Food for the soul: social and emotional origins of comfort eating in the morbidly obese / Patricia Goodspeed Grant -- Cognitive behaviour group therapy for obesity and binge eating disorder / Saskia Keville ... [et al.] -- A feminist, psychotherapeutic approach to working with women who eat compulsively / Colleen Heenan -- Changes in eating behaviour following group therapy for women who binge eat: a pilot study / Deborah Seamoore, Julia Buckroyd and David Stott.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.