Beyond Anorexia: Narrative, Spirituality and Recovery [Paperback]

Catherine Garrett (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 13, 1998

Beyond Anorexia is a sociological exploration of how people recover from what medicine labels as "eating disorders," and the first book to focus exclusively on recovery. Beginning with her own personal story, and drawing on conversations with over thirty other former sufferers, Catherine Garrett demonstrates the fundamental importance of narrative to social theory and to healing. Her central claim is that recovery is a "spiritual" experience (not necessarily a religious one), reconnecting the self with body, nature and society. As such it is the key to fully understanding anorexia.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Catherine Garrett has made a bold new departure in the approach to anorexia, strikingly original in its interweaving of psychological insight, narrative skill and theoretical depth. Beyond Anorexia is genuinely inspiring, because by displacing the center of the problem from the clinical to the spiritual, and from illness to recovery, it gives hope as well as instruction." Joel Kovel, Alger Hiss Professor of Social Science, Bard College, New York

"In this unconventional look at eating disorders, Garrett addresses the existential and spiritual questions surrounding anorexia nervosa." Choice

Book Description

Beyond Anorexia is a sociological exploration of how people recover from what medicine labels as 'eating disorders', and the first book to focus exclusively on recovery. Beginning with her own autobiography, and drawing on conversations with over thirty other former sufferers, Catherine Garrett demonstrates the fundamental importance of narrative to social theory and to healing. Her central claim is that recovery is a 'spiritual' experience (not necessarily a religious one), reconnecting the self with body, nature and society. As such it is the key to understanding anorexia fully.

Product Details

• Paperback: 260 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press; First Edition edition (October 13, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521629837
• ISBN-13: 978-0521629836
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,602,311 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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