Regaining Your Self: Breaking Free From the Eating Disorder Identity: A Bold New Approach

A new understanding and approach to eating disorders from a renowned expert, coauthor of the classic Dying to Be ThinNearly 5 percent of Americans face an eating disorder — and eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. Long considered an affliction of young women, they are now common among young men, middle-aged women, and even children as young as five. This is a health crisis of epidemic proportions.

Regaining Your Self offers hope in the battle against eating disorders through a radical new therapy technique pioneered by Ira M. Sacker, M.D. A leader in the field, Dr. Sacker has been treating patients with eating disorders for thirty-five years. This breakthrough book, filled with firsthand accounts from patients, family members, friends, and others, provides what patients and their families desperately need: a therapeutic model that heals.

• Author
• Ira M. Sacker, Sheila Buff

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 224

• Publisher
• Hyperion

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781401303051

• Genres
• psychology, health

• Release date
• 2007