LibGuides: Wellbeing Collection: Body Image

Books

Anorexia Nervosa: a recovery guide for sufferers, families, and friends by Janet Treasure; June Alexander
Call Number: Sighthill Main stock 616.85262 TRE
This book offers insight into the recovery process for those who suffer from an eating disorder as well as advice and information for their loved ones. Written collaboratively by both an expert in the field and someone with personal experience of eating disorders.
Bulimia nervosa & binge-eating : a guide to recovery by Peter J Cooper
Call Number: Sighthill Main stock 616.85263 COO
A source of information for sufferers as well as for those who need to develop a better understanding of the illness.
Getting Better Bit(e) by Bit(e) by Ulrike Schmidt; Janet Treasure; June Alexander
Call Number: Sighthill Main stock 616.8526 SCH
Illustrated real-life examples of specific problems faced on a daily basis by bulimia sufferers. The only self-help programme that has been evaluated in a randomised controlled trial, it provides detailed step-by-step advice for dealing with this condition.
Overcoming Binge Eating by Christopher G. Fairburn
Call Number: Sighthill Main stock 616.8526 FAI
All the information needed to understand binge eating and bring it under control.
Happy Fat: Taking up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You by Sofie Hagen
Call Number: Sighthill Main stock 306.4613092 HAG
ISBN: 9780008293901
Publication Date: 2020-07-23
Comedian Sofie Hagen shares how she removed fatphobic influences from her daily life and found self-acceptance in a world where judgement and discrimination are rife.
Face by Benjamin Zephaniah
Call Number: Merchiston Main stock 823.914
Debut novel by poet Benjamin Zephaniah in which he tells the story of a young man whose face is scarred in a joyriding accident.
Beyond Beautiful by Anuschka Rees
Call Number: Craiglockhart, Wellbeing Collection 158.1 REE
ISBN: 9780399582097
Publication Date: 2019-05-14
Empowering, insightful, and psychology-driven, Beyond Beautiful is the ultimate guide to building confidence in your body, beauty, clothes and life in an era of toxic social media-driven beauty standards.

Websites

CARED
This package is currently designed for parents and carers of young people (aged up to 25) in Scotland who have recently received a diagnosis of an eating disorder and are about to or have just started treatment.
Beat Eating Disorders
Beat Eating Disordersis UK charity founded in 1989 their mission is to end the pain and sufferin gcaused by eatin gdisorders.

Videos

Me... & My Eating Disorder
Candid documentary miniseries. A look at the widely misunderstood world of eating disorders. For fashion editor Liz, it was exclusion from social events that laid the foundation for her anorexia, while Cheryl took to binge eating as a way of coping with her mother’s depression. They and other sufferers share their stories

Podcasts

The Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast
The podcast explores how eating disorders work psychologically, what the recovery process looks like, and the cultural context of eating disorders. The show blends solo episodes with the host, Dr. Janean Anderson, and experts in the field including authors, speakers, dietitians, and treatment professionals.

Apps

Daylio
A simple way to record your mood and activities. Understand your patterns better and help yourself to develop healthy habits.
Recovery Record
Recover Record tracks your meals, but more importantly, how those meals make you feel, whether you used your food as a coping mechanism, and if you even enjoyed eating.
Rise Up + Recover
Rise Up + Recover uses the principles of cognitive behavioural therapy to help those struggling with eating disorders.