Beyond a Shadow of a Diet or Aromatherapy Scent and Psyche

Beyond a Shadow of a Diet: The Therapist's Guide to Treating Compulsive Eating

Author: Judith Matz

This accessible volume will guide therapists of all disciplines through step-by-step treatment of compulsive eating. The authors introduce the new research related to health, weight, fitness and diet failure, and then discuss a treatment method which advocates eating as guided by physiological signal: eating when you are hungry and stopping when you are full. The book offers tools for therapists to recognize compulsive eating patterns, use their training to address underlying psychological difficulties, and implement therapeutic principles for healing.

Beyond a Shadow of a Diet provides concrete steps for establishing a normal relationship with food and methods for understanding and treating the psychological aspects of compulsive eating.

Table of Contents:

Pt. 1	The problem
1	I want to lose weight	1
2	The therapist trap	37
Pt. 2	The treatment
3	Principles of the non-diet approach	75
4	Obstacles	117
5	Emotions	161
6	Body image	191
7	Treatment considerations	241
Pt. 3	The solution
8	Redefining health	271
9	Changing the world ... a little bit at a time	321
App. A	Food house fantasy	365
App. B	Building a positive body image	367
App. C	6-Week group	369
App. D	Feeding our children	373
App. E	Sample letter	375
App. F	Assessing your size attitudes	377
App. G	Weight loss myths	381
App. H	The tenets of health at every size	385

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Aromatherapy - Scent and Psyche: Using Essential Oils for Physical and Emotional Well-Being

Author: Peter Damian

Aromatic oils have been used for thousands of years not only for their fragrance but for culinary, therapeutic, ritual, and spiritual purposes. More than a fashionable trend, aromatherapy is coming into its own as a body of knowledge and practice with specific applications that have a solid scientific base. Drawing on research and clinical studies, Peter and Kate Damian look at many applications from treating viral infections with garlic or black pepper oil to using rose oil to relax patients undergoing chemotherapy; from aromatic massage to the "environmental fragrancing" of subways and supermarkets. 

Explores:

• How scent interacts with emotion, memory, mental acuity, and sleep

• Why specific scents are so effective in therapeutic and ritual settings

• Antiseptic and antimicrobial properties of essential oils
How men and women differ in their responses to odors

• Provides a thorough exposition of the ancient practice of aromatics in China, India, Persia, and Egypt

• Details our modern scientific understanding of the physiology and psychology of scent. 

• Includes annotated profiles for forty-four essential oils and specific instructions for creating essential oil blends.