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