Treatment of Eating Disorders Bridging the Research-Practice Gap

"Treatment of Eating Disorders, edited by luminaries Margo Maine, Beth Hartman McGilley, and Douglas Bunnell, takes on the ambitious challenge of bridging the research-practice gap in the field of eating disorders. From its conceptualization, the book had the potential to be fragmented and either too broad or too esoteric; instead it offers a complex, multidimensional, and far-reaching scope of the problems we encounter as professionals committed to the daily grind of advancing the understanding and treatment of an array of eating-related problems. This book also had the potential to be dry and pragmatic, but instead its chapters are filled with compassionate wisdom, honesy, and a real commitment to social change.. Treatment of Eating Disorders fulfills its goals of bridging practice and science and left us both sated for now, and eager to learn more from any one 85 of the astute contributors to this volume." --Eating Disorders, January 2011

"Treatment of Eating Disorders: Bridging the Research-Practice Gap" serves as an excellent resource for learning more from our colleagues 'across the aisle' and as part of the shared mission of improving treatments for eating disorders." --Academy of Eating Disorders Newsletter, December 2010

Dr. Margo Maine is a clinical psychologist who has specialized in eating disorders and related issues for 40 years. A Founder and former Adviser of the National Eating Disorders Association and Founder and Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders, she is the recipient of numerous accolades including NEDA and IAEDP lifetime achievement awards. She has led the development eight books related to body image and eating disorders, including the first edition of Treatment of Eating Disorders. Dr. Maine lectures nationally and internationally on eating disorders and women's health and maintains a private practice, Maine & Weinstein Specialty Group.

Dr. Beth Hartman McGilley is a psychologist in private practice, specializing in the treatment of eating disorders, athletes, trauma, and grief. Her practice is informed by feminist, HAES, and social justice perspectives. A Fellow of the AED and a Certified Eating Disorders Specialist/Survivor, she has practice psychotherapy for more than 35 years in addition to writing, lecturing, and supervising research on the topic. She co-edited the first edition of Treatment of Eating Disorders.

Dr. Douglas W. Bunnell is a clinical psychologist in Fairfield, Connecticut. He has specialized in the treatment of people with eating disorders for the last 35 years. Dr. Bunnell is a past board chair of the NEDA and recipient of their Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition to his private practice, Dr. Bunnell has helped to design, develop, and manage PHP and residential programs for several national eating disorder programs. He is a Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders and Certified Eating Disorder Supervisor for IAEDP. Dr. He co-edited the first edition of Treatment of Eating Disorders.