GENERAL INFORMATION

• SomethingFishy's site is full of excellent information. Particularly recommended are pages on information and support for family and friends of sufferers and physical problems caused by eating disorders. The site also features a chat room where you can talk with sufferers, carers and professionals.

• For discussion of eating related issues, try a usenet newsgroup
• After the Diet is a network of professionals dedicated to helping people overcome eating problems
• The Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center is dedicated to the prevention and treatment of eating disorders.Its executive director writes: "We provide information and treatment resources for all forms of eating disorders. We hope to promote social attitudes that enhance a healthy body image and self-esteem. We provide referrals to eating disorder professionals, treatment facilities and support groups, etc. In addition, we offer general information to inform the public about the treatment and prevention of eating disorders."

• Anorexia Nervosa: Judy's Story is an uplifting site written by Judy Tam Sargeant who has recovered from anorexia. Her book "The Long Road Back; A Survivor's Guide to Anorexia" is now available from Amazon in the US and Amazon in the UK, and all good bookshops!

• Psychotherapist Joanna Poppink has her own great website, Eating Disorder Recovery at Poppink.com. She has also written many excellent articles about eating disorders for Self Help and Psychology Magazine, including "Eating Disorder Early Recovery: How Do I Begin? The 84,000 Ways", "Getting Through A Meal with Strength and Serenity" and "Triumphant Journey: A Cyberguide To Stop Overeating and Recover from Eating Disorders"

• Eating Disorders Recovery Online is a website run by Jeannie Rust. It provides many resources to help those in recovery (including some pay-for services), as well as the Eating Disorders Recovery bulletin board

• Read about eating disorders at Healthyplace.com

• Mirror-mirror is a Canadian website devoted to eating disorders with helpful advice on approaching someone who you suspect has an eating disorder

• Gurze books publish over 100 books and tapes on Eating Disorders and you can order their new catalogue free online

ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES

• CONFERENCE RESOURCES: Links to conference organisers

  The British Psychological Society website has a searchable database of events on a range of topics

  Healthcare Events Ltd has a website including listings of their current UK based conferences

  The www.psychotherapist.org site lists a range of training courses on issues related to EDs

  Mark Allen International Communications also run UK and international conferences on a range of medical topics (including eating disorders)

• JOURNALS:

Eating Disorders Review is published by Gurze books

International Journal of Eating Disorders is now the journal of the American Academy of Eating Disorders, published by Wiley

European Eating Disorders Review is published in the UK, also by Wiley

Eating and Weight Disorders is a new European journal (no information currently available)

Eating Behaviours is another fairly new journal, published by Elsevier. Contents pages are available from Science Direct

Eating Disorders: Journal of Treatment and Prevention

Eating Disorders Online is the journal of the the e-journal of the Eating Disorders Internetwork Project, and is, as far as I know, the only online journal devoted exclusively to eating disorders. However, I'm not sure of its current status as it hasn't been updated in a good while

 

• The Eating Disorders Research society has a new website with information on joining the society and upcoming events.

• The US-based Academy of Eating Disorders has a website with basic information about eating disorders, membership and the Academy's activities

• David Gleaves at Texas A&M University maintains a mailing list on eating disorders aimed at professionals. To subscribe, send the command 'subscribe eat-dis' to listserv@sjuvm.maelstrom.edu (N.B. This list is not a support group for sufferers; for that type of group, see information alt.support.eating-disorders in the newsgroups section below)

• The American Dietetic Association site has information about healthy eating

• The Internet Mental Health Website has information on eating disorders and lists ICD-10 diagnostic criteria

• The Mental Health InfoSource website has some research information.

• Anyone in the UK planning research into eating disorders should take a look at the websites for the MRC and the Wellcome Trust

• For general information about health research opportunities in the UK, check out the grants and funding site at Leeds University

• If you are a US based researcher, you'll want to look at the NIH website and Grantsnet for information about funding

NATIONAL (AND LOCAL) EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATIONS

• UK:
  • Eating Disorder Association (UK)
  • The University of Oxford Student Union (OUSU) has some pages on eating difficulties including plenty of info about local and UK-wide resources.

   

• NEW ZEALAND: The Eating Disorders Association (NZ)

• CANADA:
• The Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Association (ANAB) have centres in Kingston and Quebec
• NEDIC (The National Eating Disorder Information Centre)

 

• AUSTRALIA: The Eating Disorder Resource Centre

• SPAIN: AETCA (Asociacion para el Estudio de los Trastornos del Comportamiento Alimentario)

• ITALY: Associazione per lo studio e la ricerca sull'anoressia, la bulimia e i disordini alimentari

• NORWAY: Interessegruppa for Kvinner med Spiseforstyrrelser

• SOUTH AFRICA: Anorexia and Bulimia Family Support Group

• UNITED STATES:
  • The American Anorexia and Bulimia Association
  • ANRED (Anorexia Nervosa and Related Eating Disorders, Inc.)
  • Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention sponsors the annual Eating Disorders Awareness Week (Feb 20-27)
  • The Massachusetts Eating Disorder Association

TREATMENT CENTRES and THERAPISTS

• UNITED KINGDOM:
  • The Promis centre in Kent understands eating disorders as forms of addictive disorder and offers treatment along the lines of 12-step programmes
  • Huntercombe Manor Hospital in Berkshire offers treatment of eating disorders and other problems in adolescents and young adults
  • The Priory Hospital is a private hospital in South London, UK, offering treatment for eating disorders and other problems

   

• AUSTRALIA:
  • Anorexia and Bulimia (Victoria, Australia)

   

• USA:
• The Renfrew Centre has seven clinics across the US offering treatmentÊ for eating disorder, trauma, anxiety, depressionÊ and women's issues
• The Eating Disorders Clinic at NYSPI/Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center offers treatment at no cost to adolescents and adults interested in, and eligible for, research participation
• The Eating Disorders Service at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, KS admits medicallly stable children, adolescents, and young adults (up to 23 years) to its inpatient programme. The programme includes individual, group, and family therapies using a range of approaches with a spiritual focus.
• McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School offers partial hospital treatment for eating disorders
• Laureate Psychiatric Hospital and Clinic in Tulsa, Oklahoma offers treatment for adults and adolescents with eating disorders
• The Remuda Ranch website has ED links and a newsletter as well as info about their treatment program for adult and adolescent women based in Arizona
• La Montagnei is a residential treatment centre for adolescent and adult women with EDs based in Crystal City, Missouri
• LifeForce offers a 15 day integrated treatment programme for disordered eating at its centre in Tucson, Arizona
• Nada Mangialetti is a behavioural consultant who works with people with eating disorders based in Westchester County , NY. Her site contains lots of information about her services plus articles on managed care and choosing a therapist and useful links to related sites
• The Monte Nido Treatment Center is based in Malibu, California and specialises in treating eating disorders
• The Johns Hopkins Eating Disorders Unit in Baltimore now has a website describing their treatment program
• The Massachusetts Eating Disorder Association offers telephone and group counselling and also organises referrals
• The Centre for Study of Anorexia and Bulimia is based in New York and carries out training for professionals as well as offering treatment for eating disorder sufferers and support groups for families and sufferers
• The Centre for Eating Disorders at St Joseph is based in Maryland and offers treatment for anorexia, bulimia and binge-eating disorder
• The A.V. Therapy and Eating Disorders Centre is based in Lancaster, California
• Rogers Hospital in Wisconsin, USA has a treatment program for sufferers from eating disorders.
• The Renfrew Centre is for women only and has branches across the United States. It describes itself as: describes itself as "an innovative resource in education and treatment for:eating disorders, trauma, anxiety, depression and women's issues"

• The Something Fishy site is a good place to start for excellent information on physical problems which can result from eating disorders

• ANRED has a page explaining the problems of laxative and enema abuse

• I have written a page about Osteoporosis and Eating Disorders which gives information about the link between the two, as well as details of how osteoporosis can be diagnosed, prevented and treated

• The National Osteoporosis Foundation also have an excellent site with more general info about osteoporosis

• The National Osteoporosis Society in the UK have also set up a website.

OVEREATING/B.E.D/COMPULSIVE EATING

• The Bristol Hospital is a good place to start for an introduction to problems of overeating

• Geri's Recovery Music tells the story of Geri's recovery from compulsive eating and the music that has been a part of her healing
  

• Mental Health Infosource also has a straightforward factsheet about Binge Eating Disorder

• The Overcoming Overeating mailing list is for discussion of the Hirshmann/Munter approach to overcoming overeating. To subscribe, send the text 'subscribe' to oo-group-request@columbia.edu

• There is also a website dealing with the Hirchmann/ Munter approach to overcoming overeating

• The Overeaters Recovery Group Home Page has information on the 12 step Overeaters Anonymous program, and about several mailing lists for support

• A Skeptic's Guide to the Twelve Steps is a guide written by a psychotherapist who also tells his own story of recovery from compulsive overeating using the 12 step approach

NEWSGROUPS + FAQS

• uk.people.support.mental-health is a relatively new group for UK-based folks to talk about mental health issues
• alt.support.eating-disorders is a long running usenet newsgroup for anyone suffering from an eating disorder. Read this FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) for more information, or just go and lurk for a while

• alt.support.big-folks (group) aims to give support to "fat people and their friends" and also has a FAQ

• soc.support.fat-acceptance is a newsgroup based on acceptance of fatness - diet talk is discouraged. Check out their FAQ

RELATED ISSUES

This section provides links to sites which cover related issues such as mental health in general, problems often related with EDs such as self-harm, depression and anxiety. It also lists size acceptance sites and anti-dieting sites.

• Recovery Resources Online is a comprehensive collection of resources for mental health problems and addictions

• Mental health in the UK is a site for mental health service users, including a chat room and newsgroup

• Supportive Souls is a great site with info about anxiety, depression and other problems from a fellow sufferer

• Grant me the serenity... is intended to help those in or seeking recovery from various addictions including eating problems

• The Institute of Psychiatry where I did my PhD has a website with comprehensive information about departments, courses etc.

• 1-800-Therapist is a mental health referral service for the USA and Canada which can put you in touch with an appropriate professional for all kinds of mental health problems. (Referrals are free but therapists pay to be listed)

• Supportive Souls Mental Health Guide is a friendly site listing general mental health resources

• The National Association for the Advancement of Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) has a website

• Hugs International is an anti-dieting organisation. Their site includes information on International No-Diet day