Creating bodies: eating disorders as self-destructive survival

by Gentile, Katie

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Title Statements

Full title :Creating bodies : eating disorders as self-destructive survival / Katie Gentile.

Summary

"Creating Bodies offers the story of healing and transformation detailed in one woman's diaries. Through a close study of both the content and structure of Hannah's diaries, Gentile shows how unspeakable, embodied remnants of sexual trauma become symbolized and how, within this process, Hannah's bulimia functioned as both an act of self destruction and a lifesaving form of resistance. Anchored in relational psychoanalysis and critical feminist theory, Creating Bodies provides a uniquely longitudinal account of the development of, and ultimate recovery from, an eating disorder fueled by childhood sexual abuse. An invaluable contribution to the literature on adolescent and adult eating disorders, it is also a thoughtful meditation on how the act of writing deepens issues of relationality and, over time, promotes cure."--Jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2007.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Analytic Press
Place of Publication:Mahwah, NJ
Language:eng
Publication Date:2007.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 210 pages ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780881634389, 0881634387
oclc:ocm76790632
LC Classification:RC552.E18
Dewey Decimal:616.8526

Subjects

Adolescent Adult Adultes Adulthood Bulimia Nervosa -- psychology Comportement autodestructeur Diaries Diary Eating disorders -- Diaries. -- Patients Eating disorders -- Patients Eating disorders in adolescence Eating disorders in women Femmes vivant avec un trouble de santé … Interpersonal relations Interprétation psychanalytique Journaux intimes Mentally ill women Mentally ill women -- Diaries Psychoanalytic Interpretation Self-destructive behavior