Fat Is a Family Affair: How Food Obsessions Affect Relationships

Key features and benefits over 500,000 copies of the first edition have been sold features personal stories that validate readers' experiences ideal for overeaters, undereaters, and binge eaters as well as their loved ones

About 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.