Eat Without Fear: Harnessing Science to Confront and Overcome Your Eating Disorder

This book is a guide for individuals affected by eating disorders and their families on how to use exposure therapy to address the eating disorder. Exposure therapy is a treatment approach that involves confronting (rather than avoiding) challenging scenarios that evoke distress. When patients confront these distressing scenarios, although it is difficult for them, they are able to learn that their distress often decreases and they are able to tolerate this distress better than imagined.

Nicholas R. Farrell, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist and a Clinical Director at NOCD: OCD Treatment and Therapy where he provides clinical leadership and oversight of therapy services. Prior, he was a Clinical Director of eating disorders services at Rogers Behavioral Health. He has published numerous scholarly works on maximizing the effectiveness of treatment for eating disorders, anxiety disorders, and related conditions.

Carolyn Black Becker, PhD, ABPP is a Professor of Psychology at Trinity University, San Antonio, TX and a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in the treatment of eating disorders, PTSD, and anxiety-based disorders. She is board certified in CBT and is a Past President of the Academy for Eating Disorders and the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology.

Glenn Waller. DPhil is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Sheffield. He is a qualified Clinical Psychologist, who has worked in the field of eating disorders since 1988. His clinical specialty is CBT for eating disorders, which is also the subject of most of his research and teaching. He has served as President of the Academy for Eating Disorders and is currently President of the Eating Disorders Research Society. He is a member of editorial boards for several CBT and eating disorder journals.