193 pg, hardcover, '05

This deeply moving, extraordinary personal, and helpful book chronicles one mother’s journey alongside her teenage daughter’s recovery from anorexia nervosa. A true story of pain, healing, and discover, Eating with Your Anorexic is also the first book written from a parent's perspective that introduces the Maudsley approach, the treatment method that restored her daughter's life. This story offers inspiration and hope for others facing this ordeal. This nontraditional but highly effective home-based approach:

• Focuses on enabling parents to feed their underweight child at home, while the child receives therapy as an outpatient

• Begins with getting weight normalized before focusing on alleged causes and psychological issues

• Rejects the once-popular theory that parental or familial issues are at the root of the illness, and utilizes parents as a resource for recovery

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Laura Collins is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in a number of magazines, including iParenting.com, Skirt!, Adoptive Families, Potomac Review and others.

REVIEWS:

"Defeating anorexia nervosa is like climbing a sand hill: you can't rest until you get to the top or you will slide right back down again. Collins's book will inspire you on the climb and… increase the likelihood you will reach the top."
— James Lock, MD, PhD, Director of the Eating Disorders Program at Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford