Feeding Anorexia: Gender and Power at a Treatment Center

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Author: Helen Gremillion

ISBN-10: 0822331209

ISBN-13: 9780822331209

Category: Eating Disorders - Self - Help

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A groundbreaking study of anorexia treatment that shows how the treatment often makes the diesease worse.

AcknowledgmentsPrologueIntroduction: In Fitness and in Health11Crafting Resourceful Bodies and Achieving Identities432Minimal Mothers and Psychiatric Discourse about the Family733Hierarchy, Power, and Gender in the "Therapeutic Family"1194"Typical Patients Are Not 'Borderline'": Embedded Constructs of Race, Ethnicity, and Class157Epilogue: A Narrative Approach to Anorexia193Notes211Bibliography247Index271