8 Keys to End Emotional Eating (8 Keys to Mental Health) - Softcover

Farkas, Howard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039371232X ISBN 13: 9780393712322

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019

Synopsis

Bring an end to emotional eating by getting to the root of the problem.

Most books about emotional eating tend to focus on how to strengthen self-restraint or how to identify what triggers it. The former can make the problem worse, while the latter may be different each time it occurs. Both approaches fail to help emotional eaters understand why they feel compelled to do something that they don’t want to do in the first place. This understanding is the key to changing this behavior.

Howard Farkas, who has more than two decades of professional and teaching experience as a clinical psychologist specializing in emotional eating, explains the underlying motive that drives the behavior: emotional eating is not a passive failure of self-control, but an active impulse to reject the control of dieting. This defiant need “to be bad” usually leaves the person feeling guilty and anxious about their eating, and recommitting to their diet until the cycle repeats, and the compulsive eating recurs.

8 Keys to End Emotional Eating provides a detailed plan for breaking this pattern. By explaining the root cause that drives the desire to binge, Farkas offers practical skills to help you learn to change your mindset about dieting and end the impulse to binge. His road map for the future will help readers maintain healthy eating habits for years to come.

About this title

About the Author

Howard S. Farkas, PhD, is a clinical psychologist who has been working and teaching for more than twenty-five years. He is the founder and president of Chicago Behavioral Health, LLC, specializing in the treatment of emotional eating. He also serves on the faculty of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine where he teaches in the clinical psychology graduate program. He is a member of the Academy of Eating Disorders and of the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals.

Babette Rothschild, MSW, has been a practitioner since 1976 and a teacher and trainer since 1992. She is a bestselling author of six books, all published by WW Norton and translated into more than a dozen languages. She is also the creator and Series Editor of the 8 Keys to Mental Health Series.

After living and working for 9 years in Copenhagen, Denmark she returned to her native Los Angeles where she is writing her next books while she continues to lecture, train, consult, and supervise professional psychotherapists of all sorts worldwide.

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 039371232X
• ISBN 13: 9780393712322
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 200