About Leigh Cohn

In addition to painting, Leigh Cohn, M.A.T., CEDS is the Publisher of Gürze Books, a company that has specialized in eating disorders education and publications since 1980, which he owns with his wife, Lindsey. They have two sons, Neil and Charlie.

Leigh is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of EATING DISORDERS: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention (Brunner/Routledge) and publisher of Eating Disorders Review.

Since the early 1980’s, he has spoken about eating disorders at colleges and universities, hospitals, to community groups, and at professional conferences for the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals, Academy of Eating Disorders, American College Health Association, Massachusetts Eating Disorders Association, and The Elisa Project, among others. He has also spoken at such universities as Notre Dame, Duke, Penn State, Ohio State University, Shippensburg University, Georgia State University, Iowa State University, the University of Calgary, University of Nebraska, Kansas State University, California State University at Northridge, Universtiy of Georgia, and others.

The co-author of several books, he is best known for Making Weight and his work on men’s issues, as well as BULIMIA: A Guide to Recovery, the first publication on bulimia, which he co-authored with his wife, Lindsey Hall, and which has sold more than 150,000 copies. This book, and their classic, Self-Esteem Tools for Recovery, and others have been translated into Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, French, and Czech. He has also co-edited clinical books including Sexual Abuse and Eating Disorders and Self Harm and Eating Disorders.

Gürze Books, has released such important titles as Eating in the Light of the Moon (Johnston), Father Hunger and Body Wars (Maine), The Rules of “Normal Eating” (Koenig), The Body Betrayed (Zerbe) and many others. Their Eating Disorders Resource Catalogue is the most widely-used resource in the eating disorders field and their website, www.bulimia.com is one of the most highly regarded on the web.

Leigh is also a past president of Publishers Marketing Association (now Independent Book Publishers Association), a non-profit trade association. An authority on publishing, he has been a featured speaker at conferences in New York, Alaska, Miami, Los Angeles, Denver, Arizona, and London.

In 2008, the National Eating Disorders Association presented Leigh and Lindsey with the Lori Irving Award for Excellence in Prevention and Awareness. In 2007, Leigh was given an honorary Certified Eating Disorders Specialist designation by the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals; and in 2005, Leigh and Lindsey received an Award for Service by the Eating Disorders Coalition in Washington DC; and, Leigh was also the subject of a feature story on WGN-News, “The Superstation,” which was televised nationally.