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Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction (Paperback)
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message 1: by Catherine (new)
Feb 23, 2009 07:43am

Catherine Leilani's reading/read this one too. How did you like it? Seriously, recommend it?


message 2: by Rosie (last edited Mar 09, 2009 07:19pm) (new) - rated it 4 stars
Mar 09, 2009 07:08pm

Rosie I really connected with several of the authors (esp bell hooks). However, there were some that I could really care less about. I do definitely think it takes a different approach to self-destruction where it isn't seen as "bad" or "good" but just describes it. I just gave this book to one of my students who was was a 5150 and was in the hospital for a week. She definitely has found something in this book that speaks for her. Read it!


message 3: by Ilze (last edited Mar 12, 2009 11:35pm) (new) - rated it 1 star
Mar 12, 2009 11:33pm

Ilze What does it mean to be 5150?

Somehow I can't help mentioning Judi Hollis' Fat and Furious. If you focus on the "furious" rather than the "fat", it makes a lot of sense to someone who struggles with self-destruction (be it anorexia, obesity, cutting, etc. etc.)

PS Alice Miller has written a lot on this topic too.


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