Healing Food Addiction: What Works - by Phil Werdell (Paperback)

About the Book

In this comprehensive book, Phil Werdell presents the first evidence-based guide to Food Addiction treatment and outlines a clear, structured approach that has helped countless individuals reclaim their lives.

Book Synopsis

In this, his final and most comprehensive work, Phil Werdell presents the first evidence-based guide to Food Addiction treatment. Drawing from his personal experience with the disease, as well as from his decades working with food addicts worldwide, he outlines a clear, structured treatment approach that has helped countless individuals reclaim their lives.

This book is essential reading for food addicts, for those questioning their relationship with food, and for the professionals an clinicians working with them. Phil's voice lives on in the pages of this book, offering a roadmap to lasting recovery and a legacy that will continue to heal lives for years to come.

About the Author

Phil Werdell is a prominent practitioner and writer in the field of food addiction. He is a graduate of Yale University with postgraduate work in eating disorders at the University of South Florida, as well as in adult education at Columbia University. He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for study in India and a Corning Fellowship for study of international business.
After a twenty-year career in innovative higher education, he became a lead therapist at a hospital-based residential treatment program for food addiction. In 1993, he founded ACORN Food Dependency Recovery Services (now SHiFT--Recovery by ACORN) and has worked professionally with over 5000 late-stage food addicts, directed a three-year training program for food addiction professionals, founded the Food Addiction Institute, and written several books on food addiction.
Mr. Werdell's previous career was as an innovative college teacher and administrator at Yale University, City University of New York, College for Human Services (NYC), Campus Free College, College of New Rochelle, and Springfield College (Tampa, FL).