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Book Synopsis Flagrantly Anorexic by : Lisa Nasseff
Download or read book Flagrantly Anorexic written by Lisa Nasseff and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than thirty years, Lisa Nasseff has faced the scourge of anorexia. She began dieting at age 9. By age 12 she was using laxatives to purge herself. By age 15 she made more than a dozen trips to the emergency room. At 16 she was committed by court order to a psych ward, where doctors spent months trying to convince her that childhood sexual abuse—which had never occurred—was the cause of her illness. She was ridiculed and shamed for her eating disorder, told by medical professionals that her anorexia was “an act,” a choice she could willfully “control” if only she had the character and strength to do so. Lisa’s nightmare continued into adulthood. After losing both her marriage and career and surviving several suicide attempts, she was severely over-medicated and subjected to phony hypnosis therapy in an eating disorders clinic, where doctors were certain that her anorexia stemmed from participation in a satanic cult. Failed by a negligent insurance “industry” that sanctioned this lunacy and by incompetent treatment “experts” who understood neither the complexities of anorexia nor humane ways to treat it, Lisa was in her mid-thirties before she began to receive clinically-proven therapies that helped manage her illness. Flagrantly Anorexic is both a memoir and a call to action. It recounts in detail Lisa’s struggle with anorexia, but this book is also a demand for a new mental health system that treats eating disorders with effective, evidence-based treatments instead of hucksterism and witchcraft. Every 62 minutes at least one person in the U.S. dies from an eating disorder. Nearly half of all Americans know someone with one. Anorexia is not a “condition” and absolutely not a choice—it’s a mental illness, a crisis that can’t be ignored. After more than thirty years in hell, no longer embarrassed and ashamed by the hand she was dealt, Lisa Nasseff has found her voice. In this unforgettable book, she asks you to join in her cause—that those who suffer from eating disorders receive the treatment and compassion they deserve.
Book Synopsis Almost Anorexic by : Jennifer J. Thomas
Download or read book Almost Anorexic written by Jennifer J. Thomas and published by Hazelden Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost Anorexic
Download or read book Criminology written by Stephen E. Brown and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-26 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, Eleventh Edition, offers a broad perspective on criminological theory. It provides students of criminology, criminal justice, and sociology with a thorough exposure to a range of theories about crime, contrasting their logic and assumptions, but also highlighting efforts to integrate and blend these frameworks. In this new edition, the authors have incorporated new directions that have gained traction in the field, while remaining faithful to their criminological heritage. Among the themes in this work are the relativity of crime (its changing definition) with abundant examples, historical roots of criminology and the lessons they have provided, and the strength and challenges of applying the scientific method. This revision offers new chapters on critical theory and on life-course criminology. It is updated throughout to reflect current trends in criminological theory and data. With chapters both updated to reflect recent developments in the field and made easier to digest, this text is essential reading for students of criminology, criminal justice, sociology, and related fields.
Book Synopsis Becoming Anorexic by : Muriel Darmon
Download or read book Becoming Anorexic written by Muriel Darmon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anorexia tends to be studied within health disciplines, such as medicine, psychoanalysis or psychology. When the condition is discussed in relation to society more broadly, focus is commonly restricted to considerations about the demise of the traditional family meal or the all-pervading obsession with thinness and media representations of ‘size zero’ models. But what can sociology tell us about anorexia and how a person becomes anorexic? This book draws on empirical research – both interviews and observation – conducted in and outside medical settings with anorexic girls, medical staff, teachers and other teenagers of the same age. As such, it offers the first fully sociological treatment of the condition, taking the reader closer to the actual experiences of people living with anorexia. It retraces the behaviours, practices and processes that create what is patterned as an anorexic ‘career’ and reveals the cultural and social characteristics of the people who engage on this path taking them from a simple diet to hospitalization or recovery. Richly illustrated with qualitative research, Becoming Anorexic: A Sociological Approach demonstrates that anorexia can be viewed as a very particular work of self-transformation, which requires specific – and social – ‘dispositions’. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and anthropology with an interest in health and illness, the body, social class and gender.
Book Synopsis The Secret Life of an Anorexic by : Kristen Noel
Download or read book The Secret Life of an Anorexic written by Kristen Noel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Secret Life of an Anorexic, Kristen, the author of this memoir, shares her remarkably evocative, honest, and empowering story about her discovery and constant battle with Anorexia. She takes you through the early years of her life and the experiences that contributed to her illness. With the prodding of her friends, she decides to go to her universitys counseling services to be evaluated. Even though doctors diagnose her with anorexia, she doesnt accept the reality. When she finally admits to herself that she has a problem, she spends the next couple years on a heart-wrenching journey to pull away from the grips of this nasty illness. In this epic novel about strength, loving yourself, and overcoming your past, Kristen shows the world that she and anyone else with this illness has the power to overcome it.
Download or read book Wasted written by Marya Hornbacher and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic of psychology and eating disorders, now reissued with an important and perhaps controversial new afterword by the author, Wasted is New York Times bestselling author Marya Hornbacher's highly acclaimed memoir that chronicles her battle with anorexia and bulimia. Vivid, honest, and emotionally wrenching, Wasted is the story of how Marya Hornbacher willingly embraced hunger, drugs, sex, and death—until a particularly horrifying bout with anorexia and bulimia in college forever ended the romance of wasting away. In this updated edition, Hornbacher, an authority in the field of eating disorders, argues that recovery is not only possible, it is necessary. But the journey is not easy or guaranteed. With a new ending to her story that adds a contemporary edge, Wasted continues to be timely and relevant.
Book Synopsis Anorexics on Anorexia by : Rosemary Shelley
Download or read book Anorexics on Anorexia written by Rosemary Shelley and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovering sufferers of Anorexia Nervosa describe in their own words their personal experiences of this illness, providing not only support for fellow sufferers but also invaluable insights for the families of sufferers and for carers and professionals. In each case the contributors describe: * the progression of their illness * the effect on their families * the treatment they received and its effectiveness * their perceived reasons for developing the illness * where they are now.
Book Synopsis How to Disappear Completely by : Kelsey Osgood
Download or read book How to Disappear Completely written by Kelsey Osgood and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Eloquent . . . An incredibly realistic portrayal of anorexia.” —The New Yorker She devoured their memoirs and magazine articles, committing the most salacious details to memory to learn what it would take to be the very best anorexic. When she was hospitalized at fifteen, she found herself in an existential wormhole: How can one suffer from something one has actively sought out? With attuned storytelling and unflinching introspection, Kelsey Osgood unpacks the modern myths of anorexia as she chronicles her own rehabilitation. How to Disappear Completely is a brave, candid and emotionally wrenching memoir that explores the physical, internal, and social ramifications of eating disorders. “Osgood vividly portrays the creepy phenomenon of the ‘pro-ana’ movement and the claustrophobic, self-involved, achingly lonely world in which young women compete to be ‘perfect’ anorexics. . . . imbued with pathos and tenderness.” —Publishers Weekly “What sets Kelsey Osgood’s memoir apart from the existing literature on anorexia is the author’s commitment to stripping the glamour and romance from the illness . . . Intelligent, moving, beautifully written, Osgood has written a paean to wellness, and taken a forthright look at everything that anorexia, ‘bastard child of vanity and self-loathing,’ took from her life.” —Molly McCloskey, author of Circles Around the Sun: In Search of a Lost Brother
Book Synopsis The Ministry of Thin by : Emma Woolf
Download or read book The Ministry of Thin written by Emma Woolf and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We’re obsessed with weight, we dislike our bodies, we worry about the food we eat, we feel guilty, we diet. Too many of us are locked into a war with our own bodies which we’ll never win, and which will never make us happy. The Ministry of Thin takes a controversial, unflinching look at how the modern, international obsession with weight loss, youth, beauty, and perfection has spun out of control. Emma Woolf, author of An Apple a Day, explores how we might all be able to stop hating and start liking our own bodies again. She rallies against the industries of food, health, exercise, beauty, sex, and surgery that seek to create a world that verges on the Orwellian —with the victims of this onslaught trapped and dominated by the societal pressures to conform. And she dares to ask: if losing weight is the answer, what is the question?
Download or read book Empty written by Christie Pettit and published by Revell. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling first-person account of battling anorexia shows teen girls how to draw hope and encouragement from the Bible in order to overcome eating disorders.
Download or read book Being Ana written by Shani Raviv and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shani Raviv is a misfit teen whose peer-pressured diet spirals down into full-blown anorexia nervosa—something no one in her early-nineties, local South African community knows anything about. Fourteen-year-old Shani spends the next six years being “Ana” (as many anorexics call it), on the run from her feelings. She goes from aerobics addict to Israeli soldier to rave bunny to wannabe reborn, using sex, drugs, exercise and, above all, starvation, to numb out everything along the way. But one night, at age twenty, Shani faces the rude awakening that if she doesn’t slow down, break her denial, and seek help, she will starve to death. Three years later, her hardest journey of all begins: the journey to let go of being Ana and learn to love herself. Being Ana is an exploration into the soul and psyche of a young woman wrestling with anorexia’s demons—one that not only exposes the real horrors of a day in the life of an anorexic girl but also reveals the courage it takes to stop fighting and find healing.
Book Synopsis Hope, Help, and Healing for Eating Disorders by : Dr. Gregory L. Jantz
Download or read book Hope, Help, and Healing for Eating Disorders written by Dr. Gregory L. Jantz and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heal your relationship with food. Eating disorders and disordered eating ravage and consume too many lives. In this powerful book for individuals suffering from eating disorders—as well as those wanting to help—Dr. Gregory Jantz comes alongside his readers with a well-tested and successful approach that addresses the emotional, relational, physical, and spiritual dimensions of healing from an eating disorder. Topics include: • Five often-overlooked nutritional keys to recovery • How to let go of anger, fear, and guilt • Tools for creating a binge-free life • How not to be a victim of others • The role of emotional and verbal abuse in eating disorders • Seven keys to creating healthy relationships This completely updated and revised edition contains new material on nutritional leading-edge interventions, spiritual abuse, and healing strategies for compulsive behaviors. If food has not found its proper place as nutrition in your life, discover the answers in Hope, Help and Healing for Eating Disorders. Because you can do more than just survive--you can really live. Contains thought provoking questions and activities to guide readers through progressive healing steps.
Book Synopsis The Anorexic Mind by : Marilyn Lawrence
Download or read book The Anorexic Mind written by Marilyn Lawrence and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eating disorders vary in severity from developmental difficulties in adolescence which may be transitory, to serious and chronic mental illnesses. The Anorexic Mind offers a coherent approach to these difficult and demanding problems, always underlining the point that while many of the manifestations are physical, eating disorders have their origins as well as their solutions, in the mind. While anorexia nervosa may be considered the central syndrome in eating disorders, this book also considers how it links and differs from bulimia nervosa, the more common, related disorder. In the process of the research on anorexia and bulimia, valuable insights have been gained into the very common problem of overeating. The author takes a developmental approach to eating disorders, and is very aware of the continuities between infantile, adolescent and adult experience. Our earliest relationship is a feeding relationship and feeding difficulties early in life are not rare.
Download or read book Running on Empty written by Carrie Arnold and published by Nelson Publishing&Marketing. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autobiographical account of a young woman's struggle with anorexia and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Book Synopsis Portrait of an Anorexic by : Maureen Ardell
Download or read book Portrait of an Anorexic written by Maureen Ardell and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Next to Nothing : A Firsthand Account of One Teenager's Experience with an Eating Disorder by : Carrie Arnold
Download or read book Next to Nothing : A Firsthand Account of One Teenager's Experience with an Eating Disorder written by Carrie Arnold and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-06-27 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than simple cases of dieting gone awry, eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia are among the most fatal of mental illnesses, responsible for more deaths each year than any other psychiatric disorder. These illnesses afflict millions of young people, especially women, all over the world. Carrie Arnold developed anorexia as an adolescent and nearly lost her life to the disease. In Next to Nothing, she tells the story of her descent into anorexia, how and why she fell victim to this mysterious illness, and how she was able to seek help and recover after years of therapy and hard work. Now an adult, Arnold uses her own experiences to offer practical advice and guidance to young adults who have recently been diagnosed with an eating disorder, or who are at risk for developing one. Drawing on the expertise of B. Timothy Walsh, M.D., one of America's leading authorities on eating disorders, she reveals in easy-to-understand terms what is known and not known medically about anorexia and bulimia. The book covers such difficult topics as how to make sense of a diagnosis, the various psychotherapies available to those struggling with an eating disorder, psychiatric hospitalization, and how to talk about these illnesses to family and friends. The result is both a compelling memoir and a practical guide that will help to ease the isolation that an eating disorder can impose, showing young people how to manage and maintain their recovery on a daily basis. Part of the Adolescent Mental Health Initiative series of books written specifically for teens and young adults, Next to Nothing will also be a valuable resource to the friends and family of those with eating disorders. It offers much-needed hope to young people, helping them to overcome these illnesses and lead productive and healthy lives.
Download or read book Skinny Boy written by Gary A. Grahl and published by American Legacy Media. This book was released on 2007 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A licensed professional counselor shares how he conquered his out-of-control compulsion to exercise and starve himself which led to multiple hospitalizations and how he overcame a shaming inner voice, which he calls "IT," that convinced him to become thinner.
