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"Millions of families are affected by eating disorders, which usually strike young women between the ages of fourteen and twenty. But current medical practice ties these families' hands when it comes to helping their children recover. Conventional medical wisdom dictates separating the patient from the family and insists that "it's not about the food," even as a family watches a child waste away before their eyes. Harriet Brown shows how counterproductive--and...
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c2003
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"Slim to None is the private journal of the late Jennifer Hendricks. Candidly detailed and eloquently written, it is an intimate chronicle of her long and ultimately fatal battle with anorexia, a disease that still claims more victims than any other mental illness." "The book illustrates Jenny's intense emotional struggles - how her pride for her improving health clashed with her undefined guilt over eating; her destructive conflict between will and...
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