Book review: Treatment and recovery of eating disorders – edited by Daniel Stein and Yael Latzer

This book aims to provide a current review of established treatment options and prognostic issues in eating disorders. This is a multi-authored, easy-to-read book with contributions from leading international researchers. The book provides a broad approach to eating disorders with chapters focussing on anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), binge eating disorder, and obesity. Chapters focus on a number of different models and approaches in the treatment and conceptualisation of eating disorders such as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), psychodynamic psychotherapy, family therapy, and pharmacotherapy. Multiple perspectives on eating disorders are provided, with chapters written by dieticians, psychologists, psychiatrists and family therapists, reflecting the multidimensional nature of eating disorders as well as the multidisciplinary approach often involved and required for treatment. The first half summarises the knowledge base in regards to the most significant treatment strategies in eating disorders. The last four chapters deal with issues related to outcome and prognosis. This book opens with an informative overview of the latest data on the most efficacious treatment options in eating disorders. The available evidence for CBT, self-psychology, family-based treatment interventions and medications is reviewed, providing a useful summary of the current evidence base and setting the scene for the rest of the book. Following this, the second chapter focuses on psychodynamic approaches to eating disorders with Banker providing an enlightening review of the history of psychoanalysis and how such treatments have been applied to the eating disorders. In chapter three a thorough overview of the current evidence-base for treatment of BN is provided, including a review of the evidence for established and less established psychotherapies, self-help approaches, and pharmacotherapy. The authors have