Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders by Aimee Liu  (21)
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"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
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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.
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"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
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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.
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Inside Another Edition of this Book Citations: This book cites 100 books | 8 books that cite this book Explore: Citations | Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Key Phrases - SIPs: anorexic period, recovered participants, anorexic behaviour, anorexic phase, negative cult (more) Key Phrases - CAPs: Simone Weil, Alcoholics Anonymous Browse Sample Pages: Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me! |
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In my earliest memories, my parents were godlike. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
anorexic period, recovered participants, anorexic behaviour, anorexic phase, negative cult, recovery from anorexia, positive cult, fasting saints, anorexic experience, recovery stories, imaginary body, autobiographical data, recovery story, anorexia nervosa, ongoing recovery Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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In my earliest memories, my parents were godlike. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
anorexic period, recovered participants, anorexic behaviour, anorexic phase, negative cult, recovery from anorexia, positive cult, fasting saints, anorexic experience, recovery stories, imaginary body, autobiographical data, recovery story, anorexia nervosa, ongoing recovery Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Simone Weil, Alcoholics Anonymous New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James on 4 pages
- Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir on page 149, page 171, and Back Matter
- The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir on page 149, page 171, and Back Matter
- Eating Disorders (Therapy in Practice) by Simon B.N. Thompson in Front Matter, page 66, and Back Matter
- Being And Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre on page 148, page 149, and Back Matter
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- Gut Feelings: Chronic Illness and the Search for Healing (At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries 16) (At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries) by Catherine J. Garrett in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body in Western Societies by Deborah Lupton in Back Matter
- Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History by George S. Rousseau on page 64
- Body Work The Social Construction of Women's Body Image (Women and Psychology) by Sylvia K. Blood in Back Matter
- Spirituality and Mental Health Care: Rediscovering a "Forgotten" Dimension by John Swinton in Back Matter
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