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Morgan Menzie takes readers through a harrowing but ultimately hopeful and inspiring account of her eating disorder Her amazing story is told through the journals she kept during her daily struggle with this addiction and disease. Her triumphs and tragedies all unfold together in this beautiful story of God's grace.

Features include: daily eating schedule, journal entries, prayers to God, poems, and what she wished she knew at the time. It's the true story of victory over a disease that is killing America's youth.

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A source of hope and valuable information for parents of children with eating disorders

This poignant and informative narrative relates how one mother rescued her daughter from the "experts" and treated the girl's life-threatening anorexia using a controversial approach. Known as the Maudsley Approach, this home-based, family-centered therapy, developed in Great Britain in the 1980s, has been receiving a lot of press here over the past few years. While it has been widely used in Europe for many years and is rapidly gaining acceptance among parents and within the pediatric and child psychiatric communities in the United States, until now, there were no popular books on the subject. Must-reading for parents of children with eating disorders, Eating with Your Anorexic is:

• The first popular book on an increasingly popular approach to curing eating disorders
• A source of practical information and guidance for parents of children with eating disorders
• An eloquent narrative filled with pathos that inspires, empowers, and informs

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An autobiographical account of Anna Paterson’s 14 year struggle with anorexia, beginning with her experiences of childhood abuse and ending with her recovery

As featured in the BBC documentary "Quietly Dying".

From the author of "Running On Empty" & "Diet Of Despair"..
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"A valuable addition to attempts to elucidate a tragic problem ..A well-researched work that shows how history and psychiatry may be allies."
—Nature

With waiflike models dominating the advertising world and a new wave of feminists waging war on societal pressure to be thin, eating disorders have, it seems, attained the status of a modern crisis. Although anorexia nervosa was not identified as such until the nineteenth century, the compulsion to be thin at the price of starvation has a long history in western society. Long before talk shows took over the air waves and Cosmopolitan hit the stands, obsession with body and fasting rituals plagued girls and women. But is anorexia as we know it today new?

In an engaging and thorough account of the history of self starvation in the western world, Walter Vandereycken and Ron Van Deth explore this question. Drawing on a myriad of intriguing examples, the authors show how self-inflicted starvation has changed its tone over the centuries and is inextricably enmeshed in socio-cultural contexts.

Consider how drastically the meaning of fasting has mutated in the Christian western world: that in the twelfth century when divine miracles were accepted realities, an emaciated girl would have been seen as holy and touched by God. That same girl would have been considered possessed and cursed by Satan in the sixteenth century when popular belief in witches was on the rise. From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls traces the history of starvation from its religious roots, bound up in rigid asceticism, to its economic ties, in the form of living skeletons like shadow Harry who toured freak shows displaying his protruding ribs for money, to the Victorian era, where modern sexual and gender stereotypes find their origin.

The book is the result of exhaustive research, covering Europe and the United States and spanning the early centuries of Christianity to the present day. From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls will interest readers in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, women's studies, religious and social history, and cultural studies.

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Anna Silver examines the ways nineteenth-century British writers used physical states of the female body--hunger, appetite, fat and slenderness--in the creation of female characters She argues that anorexia nervosa, first diagnosed in 1873, serves as a paradigm for the cultural ideal of middle-class womanhood in Victorian Britain. Silver uses the works of a wide range of writers (including Charlotte Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker and Lewis Carroll) to demonstrate that mainstream models of middle-class Victorian womanhood share important qualities with the beliefs or behaviors of the anorexic female..
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from Publisher's Weekly: This posthumous collection of case material illustrates the treatment modality successfully employed by psychiatrist Bruch with patients suffering from the eating disorder of anorexia. Two of her associates at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston have edited this final work, taped by the author before her death in 1984. Bruch makes the reader privy to the therapeutic transaction between her patients who are in what she describes as the relentless pursuit of thinness.'' Emphasizing the conversational ambiance of the therapy and discounting heretofore unsuccessful approaches of psychoanalysis and behavior modification, she helped her patients to heal. The dramatic dialogues in the cases presented allow us to hear these desperate young anorexic women individually explore their thwarted development, under the direction of a compassionate physician who guides them towards wellness. from Library Journal: Psychiatrist Bruch was a pioneer in developing psychotherapy for anorexia victims. Author of half a dozen books, her first work, Eating Disorders , appeared 15 years ago. She taped her interactions with clients, and these form the nucleus of this final book. Bruch's strength is her straightforward writing: it is honest, simple, and effective..
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JUST RELEASED! THE ANOREXIC BULIMIC SURVIVAL GUIDE is a colorful and bold biographical guide and an absolute must read for anyone suffering from an Eating Disorder. Appropriate for all ages! Written by Shash,a 54 year old woman with 19 years of abstinence from anorexia-bulimia this guide is real and wise with straight talk that offers 21 tools for recovery and speaks with truth, compassion, hope, dignity, courage and understanding for anyone suffering with anorexia bulimia.

An Excerpt From The Anorexic Bulimic Survival Guide
as Written and Lived By Shash:

Introduction

I am now in my mid-fifties and have been abstinent from bulimia for the past 19 years. I can’t say abstinent from anorexia because I still “diet” on occasion, food restrict if my clothes feel
too tight or I have pigged out the day (or days) before or I am not in a good emotional place. I am not only surviving ~ sometimes thriving ~ but certainly living with anorexia and
bulimia and it is still a day-to-day challenge. It is my belief this challenge will be lifelong. It does get easier, but for me, the addictive thoughts and urges have not completely gone away.
My goal is to share my personal “SURVIVAL GUIDE”, things that have worked for me for almost two decades, and hopefully, you will be able to glean something for yourself to help on your road to recovery and personal abstinence. These are only suggestions that have been tried and tested to the “nth” degree by me. This guide is not going to be too long because I don’t have the attention span for long drawn-out stuff. I always wind up drifting off to think aboutwhen and what I want to eat next.
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