Eating disorders are phobic disorders; therefore, we have to challenge the phobia and support patients in confronting their fears. To do so, we must find something they value more than their eating disorder, something that's so important to them that it overrides this anxiety.

I know you're bulimic because I've felt your pain and I've suffered your story. Then again, I also know what life is like on the other side -- but only because I sought help.

Recently, a woman called me to tell me how her daughter was doing great recovering from an eating disorder with the help of a book called 8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder, by Carolyn Costin. The woman wanted me to pass the news along to the author.

There is no "one-fits-all" psychotherapy for anorexia nervosa, and new patients don't open the door of the therapist's office bright-eyed, cheerful, and eager for treatment.

What happens to people with anorexia or bulimia who don't get treatment -- or who don't get enough of the right treatment?

Anorexia nervosa is a serious eating disorder, becoming more and more prevalent around the Western world. Despite patients' stance that this disorder ...

Imagine a deadly, but treatable, illness where the "experts" refused to use their own science. Welcome to eating disorder treatment in 2010.