Category: Body Image and Eating Disorders

Healthy Beginnings Have Happy Endings

“There is more difference within the sexes than between them.” Ivy Compton-Burnett The objective will be to focus on relationships or Eating Disorder Inventory III…
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Improving Body Image

Susan Justitz Ph.D If you are among the millions of women who does not like the way her body looks, join the club. Over half…
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Is It Worth Dying For?

A recent commercial including all males portrays an interesting perspective on how obsessed Americans have become with their body image. In essence, it conveys the…
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Beauty and the Beach…

By: by Jennifer Passanante, LCSW Preventing body image distortion from taking the joy out of swimsuit season … During a recent conversation with my almost…
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The Freshman Fifteen

By Susan Parish-WalkerAlthough we have begun to conquer the Age of Anxiety, we still are faced with many challenges in the rat race of life….
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The Barbie Doll Body Image

“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” Gloria Steinem Barbie just turned 47. She simply…
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