| Beyond Anorexia: Narrative, Spirituality and Recovery Contributor(s): Garrett, Catherine (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521629837 ISBN-13: 9780521629836 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $44.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1998 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Self-help | Eating Disorders & Body Image - Psychology | Psychopathology - Eating Disorders - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 616.852 |
| LCCN: 98-06161 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.03" W x 9" (0.92 lbs) 260 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |