"In this comprehensive and insightful work, Dr. Sharon Klayman Farber provides an invaluable resource for the mental health professional who is struggling to understand self-harm and its origins. Using attachment theory to explain how addictive connections to pain and suffering …
"In this comprehensive and insightful work, Dr. Sharon Klayman Farber provides an invaluable resource for the mental health professional who is struggling to understand self-harm and its origins. Using attachment theory to explain how addictive connections to pain and suffering …
According to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Related Disorders, the National Eating Disorders Association, and the National Institute of Mental Health, between five and ten million Americans suffer from eating disorders. The vast majority are female, although an…
'I can tell you exactly the day it all went wrong - the day my mum attacked my dad with a kitchen knife. In those few, short seconds, a black hole opened up in my life and I fell right in.' Tina McGuff's life was perfect - or so she thought. Living in Dundee with her devoted par…
The Thin Woman provides an in-depth discussion of anorexia nervosa from a feminist social psychological standpoint. Medicine, psychiatry and psychology have all presented us with particular ways of understanding eating disorders, yet the notion of 'anorexia' as a medical conditi…
Provides a discussion of anorexia nervosa from a feminist-social psychological standpoint. Based on original research using historical and contemporary literature on anorexia nervosa, and a series of interviews with women diagnosed as anorexic, this text offers insights into the…
Roman témoignage. Repérée à 17 ans dans la rue par un chasseur de mannequins, Victoire rêve d'une vie de star courtisée par les plus grands couturiers. Son ascension est fulgurante. En moins de 6 mois, elle fait plus de 22 défilés à New York, Milan, Paris et appartient au cercl…
"The phenomenon of voluntary self-starvation - whether by political hunger strikers or lone anorectics - is a puzzle of engrossing power, suggesting a message more radical than any uttered aloud. In this fascinating phenomenology, Maud Ellmann teases out this message, its genesi…
In this passionate merging of personal history and scholarship, Leslie Heywood reveals the "anorexic logic" central to Western high culture. This logic privileges mind over body, masculine over feminine, individual over collective, control over emotion, and a realm of transcende…
This book provides a first-hand account of what it is like to experience an eating disorder. It also guides adolescents through what to expect during recovery from an eating disorder. Provides tips for everyday survival in the real world and a broader view to help stay on the ro…