Eating Disorders and Mindfulness

<p>This book presents an overview of the latest psychological knowledge about the application of mindfulness-based interventions in the field of eating disorders. Increasingly these interventions are used in therapeutic practice. They encourage clients to process their experience fully as it arises without judgement. Mindfulness-based approaches in particular emphasize the cultivation of moment to moment awareness of thoughts and feelings as well as bodily sensations. In so doing eating disorders present an ideal context for the development of mindfulness. Indeed it is in the body that the emotional and relational struggles of clients reveal themselves. </p><p>The authors in this diverse volume share a belief in the utility of using mindfulness-based practices to address disordered eating. It features up to date research and theory regarding mindfulness and the full spectrum of eating disorders from Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa to Binge Eating Disorder. In addition it explores how professionals can utilize mindfulness in their own practices in the context of both individual and group treatment.</p><p>This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>Eating Disorders: the Journal of Treatment and Prevention.</i></p>