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Golden Cage: The Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa

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A remarkable description of the basic personality and family mechanisms involved in teenage mental disorders and their anorectic expression.

This book was extremely informative about the underlying causes of eating disorders. It gave me a better understanding for how they can develop in the home, how parental pressures at a young age can have a huge influence, and also supports the fact that you don't have to have a tragic up bringing to be subject to an eating disorder.

empathic portrayal of anorexia nervosa by a pioneer in the field; it has human descriptives of everything characterized scientifically in textbooks and journals.

I developed anorexia nervosa back in 1975. I discovered I had this disorder through a Good Housekeeping magazine article written/published in June of 75. After learning about this bazaar illness I went to the library to read as much as I could about this illness. At that time I could only find books written by Hilda Bruch. Wow, what an eye opener. Even though this illness nearly killed me, it was Bruch's books that gave me incredible insights about my disorder. This is the only book on anorexia nervosa I would recommend to anybody.

This is a great book that helped me see what my mom was going through. It is very well written and there are many different stories of people going through Anorexia.

I was looking to find the personality behind anorexia before I recognized that my 7-year-old niece was well on her way in terms of personality. (If the anoretic in a large family is known as the snitch, no-one would recognize that in the usual small family.) I've read any number of books about anorexia, but none more sympathetic from an outsiders view. Unfortunately, most books on the subject are written by anoretics. It's a stretch to believe that they can be objective about their own condition. But they have lived it. There are never solid comments such as "no sense of humor" or having a "tiny little voice". These are physical manifestations that can be easily recognized. I think that's important.