Hunger Pains: The Modern Woman's Tragic Quest for Thinness
10 best books like Hunger Pains: The Modern Woman's Tragic Quest for Thinness (Mary Pipher): Life-Size, Losing It, Restricted, Adult Children of Abusive Parents, Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life, Anatomy of Anorexia, Going Hungry: Writers on Desire, Self-Denial, and Overcoming Anorexia, The Golden Cage: The Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa, The Fat Studies Reader, Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss--And the Myths and Realities of Dieting
Author | Jenefer Shute |
ISBN | 0380730219 |
a pretty intense, heartrending novel from the p.o.v. of an anorexic woman in an eating disorder treatment center. a lot of flashbacks. some unfortunate, but, i suppose earned, melodrama. came recommended by marylou, who is awesome.
True Story: bought this at Powell's in Portland directly...
Author | Sandy McKay |
ISBN | 1877361747 |
"I'll go bonkers in here, Issy. It's like prison except at least in prison you have some freedoms."
Fifteen-year-old Johanna Morrison is in hospital, writing letters to her best friend, Issy. As part of her therapy Jo is not allowed to leave her room, use the phone, have visitors or even wash...
"I thought that once I had lost the weight, I would feel better about myself and maybe I would be something special. Well, I have lost weight, I do not feel better about myself, and I am still nothing special." "Restricted" takes readers into the mind of a nineteen year old girl named Erin. Brought on by the...
Author | Steven Farmer |
ISBN | 0345363884 |
A history of a childhood abuse is not a life sentence. Here is hope, healing, and a chance to recover the self lost in childhood. Drawing on his extensive work with Adult Children, and on his own experience as a survivor of emotional neglect, therapist Steven Farmer demonstrates that through exercises...
Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life
Author | Jenni Schaefer |
ISBN | 0071608877 |
Jenni Schaefer and Ed (eating disorder) are no longer on speaking terms, not even in her most difficult moments. In her bestseller,"Life Without Ed", Jenni learned to treat her eating disorder as a relationship, not a condition—enabling her to break up with Ed once and for all.
In "Goodbye...
Author | Steven Levenkron |
ISBN | 0393321010 |
Anatomy of Anorexia is a tremendous tool for families: now more than ever, early diagnosis and treatment, and family participation, are crucial in helping the anorexic. Preeminent therapist Steven Levenkron demystifies this life-threatening disease and shows how the millions of girls and women...
Going Hungry: Writers on Desire, Self-Denial, and Overcoming Anorexia
Author | Kate M. Taylor |
ISBN | 0307278344 |
Here, collected for the first time, 19 writers describe their eating disorders from the distance of recovery, exposing as never before the anorexic's self-enclosed world. Taking up issues including depression, genetics, sexuality, sports, religion, fashion and family, these essays examine...
The Golden Cage: The Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa
Author | Hilde Bruch |
ISBN | 0674005848 |
First published more than twenty years ago, with almost 150,000 copies sold, The Golden Cage is still the classic book on anorexia nervosa, for patients, parents, mental health trainees, and senior therapists alike. Writing in direct, jargon-free style, often quoting her patients' descriptions...
Author | Esther D. Rothblum |
ISBN | 0814776310 |
Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology
Winner of the 2010 Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Edited Volume in Women's Studies from the Popular Culture Association
We have all seen the segments on television news shows: A fat...
Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss--And the Myths and Realities of Dieting
Author | Gina Kolata |
ISBN | 0374103984 |
In this eye-opening book, "New York Times" science writer Gina Kolata shows that our society's obsession with dieting and weight loss is less about keeping trim and staying healthy than about money, power, trends, and impossible ideals.
"Rethinking Thin" is at once an account of the place...
Prude: How the Sex-Obsessed Culture Damages Girls (and America, Too!)
Author | Carol Platt Liebau |
ISBN | 1599956837 |
A magazine (Cosmo GIRL!) aimed at 10 year olds should NOT be telling girls what jeans to wear to make their 10 year old butts look hot. Nor do I think 9 year old girls need to wear thongs. This is pretty much where I end my agreement with the author. While she makes some valid points on the horrifying sexualization...
Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction
Author | Patrick J. Carnes |
ISBN | 1568386214 |
With the revised information and up-to-date research, Out of the Shadows is the premier work on sex addiction, written by a pioneer in its treatment.
Sex is at the core of our identities. And when it becomes a compulsion, it can unravel our lives. Out of the Shadows is the premier work on this disorder,...
Author | Geneen Roth |
ISBN | 0452268184 |
In this moving and intimate book, Geneen Roth, bestselling author of "Feeding the Hungry Heart" and "Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating, " shows how dieting and compulsive eating often become a substitute for intimacy. Drawing on painful personal experience as well as the candid stories of those...
Author | Maxine Harris |
ISBN | 0452272688 |
"The Loss That is Forever" provides a thoughtful framework for understanding the impact that early loss has on every aspect of adult development. Through extensive research, interviews with more than sixty-five men and women, and the compelling writings of such well-know figures as Virginia Woolf,...
This book is not for someone with fresh wounds, which is who needs healing the most. Although a reader will be introduced to empathy for what her husband has faced, the book was painful to read because of an unbalanced amount of empathy handed to the wife. Comparing to another healing book I just read, the...
Insatiable: The Compelling Story of Four Teens, Food and Its Power
Author | Eve Eliot |
ISBN | 1558748180 |
Insatiable is an astonishingly moving story of four teenage girls whose shame, fear and confusion compel them to binge, purge and refuse to eat in misguided attempts to feel safe and in control of their lives. This incredible, imaginative story, written in episodic format, is based on real case histories...
Dilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk about Sexuality
Author | Deborah L. Tolman |
ISBN | 0674018567 |
Be sexy but not sexual. Don't be a prude but don't be a slut. These are the cultural messages that barrage teenage girls. In movies and magazines, in music and advice columns, girls are portrayed as the object or the victim of someone else's desire--but virtually never as someone with acceptable sexual...
Solitaire: The Compelling Story of a Young Woman Growing up in America and Her Triumph over Anorexia
Author | Aimee Liu |
ISBN | 0595002994 |
I first read this book, about the author's struggles with (and apparently spontaneous recovery from) anorexia many years ago. I can clearly remember the circumstances in which I read it. I was in training at a military base in Texas, eating as little as possible and running the six mile perimeter every...
Passing for Thin: Losing Half My Weight and Finding My Self
Author | Frances Kuffel |
ISBN | 0767912926 |
An intimate and darkly comic memoir of a woman who does a 180 with her body.
When she was in her early forties, Frances Kuffel lost half her body weight. In Passing for Thin, Frances describes with unflinching honesty and a wickedly dark sense of humor her first fumbling introductions to her newly...
Hungry: A Mother and Daughter Fight Anorexia
Author | Sheila Himmel |
ISBN | 0425227901 |
A unique eating-disorder memoir written by a mother and daughter.
Unbeknownst to food critic Sheila Himmel-as she reviewed exotic cuisines from bistro to brasserie- her daughter, Lisa, was at home starving herself. Before Sheila fully grasped what was happening, her fourteen-year-old...
Am I Thin Enough Yet?: The Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity
Author | Sharlene Hesse-Biber |
ISBN | 0195117913 |
Whether they are rich or poor, tall or short, liberal or conservative, most young American women have one thing in common--they want to be thin. And they are willing to go to extraordinary lengths to get that way, even to the point of starving themselves. Why are America's women so preoccupied with weight?...
Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self
Author | Sara Shandler |
ISBN | 0060952970 |
The Barnes & Noble Review
When Sara Shandler was 16, she read psychologist Mary Pipher's
Reviving Ophelia
. "Horror stories of eating disorders, self-mutilation, abusive relationships floated across the page," Shandler writes of Pipher's book on adolescent girls. "Pipher equated...
Staying Sober: A Guide for Relapse Prevention- Based Upon the CENAPS Model of Treatment
Having read my share of AA and NA literature, I was refreshed and interested to read a book based NOT on the 12 steps, but on a Medical Physician's experience and observations of over a hundred Addicts/Alcoholics in a clinical environment and their follow-ups post-clinic.
I would recommend...
Adult Children: The Secrets of Dysfunctional Families
Author | John C. Friel |
ISBN | 0932194532 |
It is estimated that as many as 34 million people grew up in alcoholic homes. But what about the rest of us? What about families that had no alcoholism, but did have perfectionism, workaholism, compulsive overeating, intimacy problems, depression, problems in expressing feelings, plus all the other...