Eating Disorders: The Basics

Dr. Elizabeth McNaught is a GP, co-founder and medical director of Family Mental Wealth, UK.Janet Treasure is a professor at King’s College London and a consultant psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, UK.Jess Griffiths is a therapist specialising in eating disorders and works as the national co-lead for FREED (First Episode Rapid Early Intervention for Eating Disorders) at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, UK.

“It really works to have a mix of contributors who can talk about the issues from all angles. So you’ve got the expert view, which is so informative - and really important to helping with early detection - but you’re also hearing from people with lived experience of eating disorders, their family and carers, reinforcing the message that recovery is always possible.”Stacey Dooley, author of ‘Are You Really OK?: Understanding Britain’s Mental Health Crisis’, UK.“This book is an excellent combination of professional and lived experience voices resulting in a comprehensive and easily digestedoutline of Eating Disorders; an illness that is seldom well understood but which people do recover from, when treated. The authors eloquently explain important topics such as assessments, treatment, medical emergencies and the diversity of how eating disorders can affect anyone of any age. I recommend this book for health and school professionals as well as families and friends.”Professor Tim Kendall, NHS Mental Health National Clinical Director, UK.

• 1. Introduction 2. Eating Disorders Overview 3. Diversity in Eating Disorders 4. Anorexia Nervosa 5. Bulimia Nervosa 6. Binge Eating Disorder 7. Other Specified Feeding and Eating Disorder 8. Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder 9. Pica 10. Rumination Disorder 11. Treatment 12. Supporting someone living through an eating disorder 13. Letters of Hope 14. Glossary