Beyond Anorexia: Narrative, Spirituality and Recovery
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...
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A sociological exploration of eating disorders and the first book to focus exclusively on recovery.
PrefaceAcknowledgementsGlossaryPt. IPersonal sociology1Descent and return32Researching recovery173Autobiography, narrative and healing31Pt. IIAnorexia and recovery4Reinterpreting 'anorexia'475Reinterpreting 'recovery'636Recovery stories80Pt. IIISpirituality7Society and spirit958Rituals of self-transformation1109Spiritual stories132Pt. IVThe body10Recreating the body14711The sexual body16212The knowing body173Epilogue184App. AParticipants' profiles194App. BQuestions to participants198App. CCodes used for analysis200Notes201References218Index234
