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When Dieting Becomes Dangerous: A Guide to Understanding and Treating Anorexia and Bulimia
This primer on anorexia and bulimia is aimed directly at patients and the people who care about them. Written in simple, straightforward language by two experts in the field, it describes the symptoms and warning signs of eating disorders, explains their presumed causes and complexities, and suggests effective treatments. The book
-- guidance about what to expect and look for in the assessment and treatment process;
-- emphasis on the critical role of psychotherapy and family therapy in recovery;
-- explanation of how anorexia and bulimia differ in their origins and manifestations;
-- information on males with eating disorders and how they are similar to and different from female patients;
-- a separate chapter for health care professionals who are not specialists in the diagnosis and treatment of individuals with eating disorders;
-- up-to-date readings, Internet sites, and professional organizations in the United States and in Europe.
-- guidance about what to expect and look for in the assessment and treatment process;
-- emphasis on the critical role of psychotherapy and family therapy in recovery;
-- explanation of how anorexia and bulimia differ in their origins and manifestations;
-- information on males with eating disorders and how they are similar to and different from female patients;
-- a separate chapter for health care professionals who are not specialists in the diagnosis and treatment of individuals with eating disorders;
-- up-to-date readings, Internet sites, and professional organizations in the United States and in Europe.
224 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2002
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July 2, 2008
Let me confess an awkward kind of sexism: before this book, I had a loose idea about what differentiates the sexes (aside from anatomy, you snarky smart-asses ;), and that, maybe contextualized by Wollstonecraft's sentiment that it's our rational faculties which make us (the sexes) equal, basically one need only think, discuss, and possibly study to be able to fully understand any aspect of what it means to be female.
This is, obviously, entirely and absolutely absurd, but I like to think it came from the forgivable naiveté of youth and a gender-studies bolstered education.
After reading "WDBD," which steps out of the non-fiction Eating Disorder genre by approaching EDs with a half-conversational, half-anecdotal perspective specifically NOT memoir-esque or couched in the typical Self Help imperatives, a little light clicked on in my head and, somehow, I began to grasp an inkling of the pressures women face these days, and how such social, familial, and ultimately personal pressures shape an indivual's identity.
I won't wax on about much of the book's content (I think the title takes care of that), but for anyone out there who's specifically coming from an outsider's perspective and trying to understand EDs, this is a necessary book, and fairly cheap and available used and online. Check it out.
This is, obviously, entirely and absolutely absurd, but I like to think it came from the forgivable naiveté of youth and a gender-studies bolstered education.
After reading "WDBD," which steps out of the non-fiction Eating Disorder genre by approaching EDs with a half-conversational, half-anecdotal perspective specifically NOT memoir-esque or couched in the typical Self Help imperatives, a little light clicked on in my head and, somehow, I began to grasp an inkling of the pressures women face these days, and how such social, familial, and ultimately personal pressures shape an indivual's identity.
I won't wax on about much of the book's content (I think the title takes care of that), but for anyone out there who's specifically coming from an outsider's perspective and trying to understand EDs, this is a necessary book, and fairly cheap and available used and online. Check it out.
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