This instructive and engaging guide provides the latest thinking,
compassionate counsel, and step-by-step assistance to individuals who
suffer from compulsive eating behaviors.
With more than half a million copies sold, Fat is a Family Affair is
recognized as the benchmark text on family dynamics and eating
disorders. Newly updated with current research, perspectives, and
stories, this instructive and engaging guide provides the latest
thinking, compassionate counsel, and step-by-step assistance to
individuals who suffer from compulsive eating behaviors--specifically
overeating and undereating. Judi Hollis is eminently qualified to offer
guidance on this topic, having counseled families for more than 30 years
and pioneered the nation's first Twelve-Step eating disorders treatment
program. Key features and benefitsover 500,000 copies of the first
edition have been soldfeatures personal stories that validate readers'
experiencesideal for overeaters, undereaters, and binge eaters as well
as their loved onesAbout the author Judi Hollis, Ph.D.., is a licensed
marriage and family counselor with special training in addiction and
sexuality. She maintains a private practice in New York City and teaches
on a number of faculties. Dr. Hollis, who is in recovery from an eating
disorder, has been counseling addicted families since 1967 when she
helped to establish New York City's Phoenix House programs. In 1975, Dr.
Hollis founded the HOPE (Helping Overeaters through People and
Education) Institute, the nation's first addiction-model eating
disorders hospital unit.
