Gurze Books

Eating Disorders Anonymous: The Story of How We Recovered from Our Eating Disorders presents the accumulated experience, strength, and hope of many...

Written in easy-to-understand, everyday language, The Rules of "Normal" Eating lays out the four basic rules that "normal" eaters follow instinctiv...

By weaving practical insights and exercises through a rich tapestry of multicultural myths, ancient legends, and folktales, Anita Johnston helps th...

This guided journal includes inspirational quotes and prompts for individuals in recovery from eating disorders. With soulful artwork by the late M...

Dear Kids of Alcoholics... This is an honest, hopeful book about alcoholism and recovery. Readers (age 8–17) will identify with Jason's feelings a...

Questions and awareness activities are at the heart of this book, offering a variety of ways in which readers can pinpoint problems, identify n...

Eating disorders are serious, life-threatening illnesses that often make no sense to family and friends. But to the person involved they make a lot...

Stories I Tell My Patients by Arnold Andersen, M.D., has been an intermittent feature in Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention ...

Recovery from an eating disorder requires support of all kinds, and this book is filled with ideas, exercises, and insights. Based on Kerrigan’s ow...

How do couples tackle ticklish questions like "Does this make me look fat?" or "Will you go on a diet with me?" What does one partner say when the ...

Carol Johnson once thought of herself as an "un"--unattractive, undisciplined, undesirable, unmotivated, undeserving, uninvited--but no more!...

This biography of Hilde Bruch is a colorful, personal account of a legendary figure in modern psychiatry. Although she is best known as a pioneer ...

Live Large! is organized in a one-page-at-a-time format so that the reader can take her time to absorb and practice each message fully. Every p...

This book offers Spanish-language readers a complete understanding of the eating disorder of self-starvation. It provides straightforward informati...

Bulimia, el síndrome de comilona y purga, es un problema complejo con raíces intrincadas. La recuperación se logra de una manera óptima si se c...

Healthy exercise means finding a balance between overtraining and inactivity. By using a combination of clinical studies and real-life examples, ...

Embody: Learning to Love Your Unique Body (and quiet that critical voice!) brings to life the work of The Body Positive, a non-profit organization ...

Offers those recovering from drug or alcohol abuse advice on improving self-esteem, gaining confidence in making decisions, overcoming destructi...

Stories have the power to change lives. These compelling tales of seven women and one man are a revealing look at the complexity of eating diso...

In the first book written by the child of someone who died from an eating disorder, Daniel Becker shows us the heartbreaking details of his mother'...

The negative body-image epidemic that affects millions of women is also a hidden problem for millions of men. In spite of a decade-long emphasi...

Anorexia nervosa, in simple terms, is self-starvation. However, it is a complex problem with intricate roots; and, recovery is best accomplished wi...

In this ground-breaking study, Margo Maine declares war on a culture that dismisses, devalues, and disempowers women by making them hate their ...

Starting Monday is based on the simple premise that when our behaviors don’t align with our expressed intentions, we’ve got a conflict going on, of...