| #6355365 in Books | 1993-01-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.80 x.51 x5.04l, | File type: PDF | 224 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Read this book if you have clients with Anorexia, please|By Laia|Susie Orbach has a feminist perspective that I think is CRUCIAL in this matter. She doesn't have a recipe or a cure-for-all, she simply advocates in listening to the person and the symptom, not only the symptom. I don't want to simplify her approach, I'll just say: it's a MUST READ about anorexia.
In her examination of the anorectic's struggle, Susie Orbach sees women's eating problems as symbolizing the battle for autonomy in which every woman is engaged by identifying the first and most important arena of contention, a woman's body. As the author demonstrates, a woman's obsessive monitoring, severe reduction in food intake and the accompanying bingeing are a reflection of society's demands that she does not take up too much space, that she looks a certain way in...
You easily download any file type for your device.Hunger Strike (Penguin Psychology) | Susie Orbach. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
