The Eating Disorder Solution

About the Book

An eating disorder is a problem that causes families, friends, and treatment providers considerable confusion and frustration.

This paradoxical and confounding problem has often gone misunderstood and, as a result, mistreated for as long as it has been in existence. This book sets forth a creative and simple way for families and caregivers to understand what an eating disorder actually is, how to think about it in healing, helpful ways, and provides one facet of the total solution to understanding the true nature of an eating disorder. Because it is too difficult to fight something you cannot see, this book proposes a way to 'see' the invisible thought process called an eating disorder. Eating disorders are treatable as long as the disparity and depth of misunderstanding of all involved in the healing process are removed. The Eating Disorder Solution is a positive contribution to the growing effort to eradicate eating disorders.

About the Author

Dr. Barbara Cole is the Clinical Director of the Victorian House of Newport Beach, California, where she has developed a unique method of residential treatment for women with eating disorders. Her publications include The Eating Disorder Solution (Trafford Publishing/Winter Publishing), The No-Resistance Method of Treatment for Eating Disorders - Practitioner's Guide, (Trafford Publishing/Winter Publishing - Pending), Gifts of Sobriety (Hazelden Publishing and Information), The No-Resistance Method of Eating Disorder Intervention (Winter Publishing - Pending), Don't Tell a Soul (Rosen Publishing), Alex The Great (Rosen Publishing), Color and You, (Revelli, Inc.) and more. She has been in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in Newport Beach, Corona del Mar and Los Angeles, California for many years, and adds to a wealth of experience her years as a clinician at The Betty Ford Center and prior to that the Program Director of many licensed treatment facilities in northern California. Dr. Cole has a Bachelor's degree in World & Comparative Literature, a master's degree in Creative Writing and English, a second master's degree in Clinical Psychology, and doctorate degrees in Psychology and Metaphysics, as well as hypnotherapy certification and licensure. She is a clinical member of the American Association of Marriage & Family Therapy as well as a member of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals. She has dedicated her life to making unnecessary human suffering optional.

You may contact Dr. Cole or learn more via her website at www.drbarbaracole.com.