Overcoming Anorexia Nervosa. A Self-help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques C. Freeman Robinson: London (2002), £7.99 (paperback), ISBN 1-85487-969-3
✍ Scribed by Ulrike Schmidt
- Book ID
- 102194746
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 32 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1072-4133
- DOI
- 10.1002/erv.546
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✦ Synopsis
battle on her own' but she is equally clear that treatment must not mould the patient to its own formula-she must 'rebuild herself using her own strengths, not those imposed on her by the therapist.' Her own happy ending seems to involve a sort of deliberate withering away of anorexia. 'My way of getting over anorexia', she says, 'Has been to try to forget about how I feel and to busy myself with living'. But more positively, 'If you can love yourself, even your not-so-lovable body, then not-eating becomes an irrelevant response'. Looking back on the years of suffering she concludes 'There is some compensation for all that wasted time-self-knowledge.' Hungry Hell offers us the fruit of that self-knowledge.