The Deadly Diet: Recovering from Anorexia and Bulimia

By Terrence Sandbek

Describes a step-by-step method for sufferers of anorexia and bulimia to help themselves to overcome the diseases and change their behavior. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0934986185
• ISBN13: 9780934986182
• Release Date: March 1986
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 6.0" x 0.7"

Customer Reviews

Good book for any compulsive problem

I do not have anorexia but Learned so much from this book My friend and I went through it like it was a college class. We loved it. We did the work and reaped the rewards. Thanks, Kitty

A Cognitive Approach to Eating Disorders

This book is very heavily based on cognitive and rational-emotive therapy as a way to control emotions, and therefor destructive eating patterns. Dr. Sandbek talks about the differences between constructive negative emotions (like sadness) and negative destructive emotions (like depression), and their consequent constructive and destructive behaviors. You learn to recognize that destructive emotions come from distorted thoughts. He recommends taking all the ugly things one says to themselves and thinking of it as a seperate internal voice. Then you learn to argue with and defeat the "Voice." Dr. Sandbek also emphasizes time management and stress reduction techniques. On the negative side Dr. Sandbek doesn't appear to have an iota of a feminist perspective in him (at one point he recommends anorexics look Playboy so they can see how much thinner they are then women "men consider attractive"), which is startling considering how many women this disease affects. This isn't too much of a concern however, since clearly his intent is to help women overcome disempowering emotions and behaviors, with clinical proven cognitive tools.