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Books – Biting the Hand that Starves You
Biting the Hand that Starves you – Inspiring Resistance to Anorexia and Bulimia by Rick Maisel, David Epston and Ali Borden.
By viewing anorexia/bulimia as an external influence rather than a part of the person, this book shows readers how to inspire collaborative, accountable, and spirit-nurturing steps toward recovery. The first section illuminates how an eating disorder confines a person to it’s prison; the second part focuses on how therapists and other helpers can help to break the spell; lastly the book details a strategy for reclaiming one’s life and inspiring hope. Stories, poems and first person accounts are exposed in this title for both professionals and lay readers.
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Biting The Hand That Starves You details a unique way of thinking and speaking about anorexia/bulimia. By having conversations with insiders in which the problem is viewed as an external influence rather than a part of the person, these therapists show how to bring the tactics of anorexia/bulimia into the open, expose its deceptions, break its spell, and encourage defiance of its tyrannical rule.
This book draws to an unprecedented degree on the anti-anorexic/bulimic knowledge of insider clients/collaborators to provide fresh insights into the workings of anorexia/bulimia and the means to overcome it. The knowledge of these authors and their insider collaborators, who speak poignantly and passionately on their own behalf, is sure to benefit all those affected by anorexia/bulimia.
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‘Biting the Hand that Starves You is the most powerful account available of generating collaborative resistance against anorexia/bulimia. Provocative, passionate, and intimate, this book draws on a wealth of experience to show how professionals, ‘insiders,’ and their loved ones can work together to reclaim identities from the grip of these potentially deadly problems. This book is sure to inspire hope, help to transform lives, and spark important controversies about how to understand, represent, and fight against anorexia/bulimia.’
— Helen Gremillion, Associate Professor and Peg Zeglin Brand Chair, Department of Gender Studies, Indiana University (Bloomington), and author of Feeding Anorexia: Gender and Power at a Treatment Center.
Books – Critical Feminist Approaches To Eating Dis/orders
Critical Feminist Approaches To Eating Dis/orders edited by Helen Malson & Maree Burns.
Bringing together an international range of cutting-edge, contemporary feminist research & theory on eating disorders, this book explores how anorexia nervosa and obesity cannot be adequately understood in terms of individual mental illness and deviating from the norm but are instead continuous with the dominant ideas and values of contemporary cultures.
Essential reading for academic, graduate and post-graduate researchers.
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Over the past decade there have been significant shifts both in feminist approaches to the field of eating disorders and in the ways in which gender, bodies, body weight, body management and food are understood, represented and regulated within thedominant cultural milieus of the early twenty-first century. This book addresses these developments, exploring how eating disordered subjectivities, experiences and body management practices are theorised and researched within postmodern and post-structuralist feminist frameworks.
The book also includes much of interest to narrative therapists,
including chapters by Epston and Maisel, Helen Gremillion (Acting Head of School of Social Practice, UNITEC Institute of Technology and author of 'Feeding Anorexia: Gender and Power in a Treatment Center(2003), Maree Burns, Jane Tyrer and EDEN (Jane and Maree recently completed Grad Dips in Counselling (Narrative Therapy) at UNITEC), Richard, Ann and Diana Treadgold who previously contributed Chapter 17: Lighting a torch in the great darkness of anorexia to 'Biting The Hand That Starves You(2004) and several articles in The Listener and Michael Guilfoyle (Trinity College, Dublin).
Reviews
"This is the book so many have been anxiously awaiting. Bringing together the perspectives of clinicians, theorists, activists, and those suffering, this book expands our thinking about what forces help to create and sustain eating disorders and stimulates a critically informed and comprehensive understanding of eating and body image disorders and of the contemporary woman’s bodily experience. It is a ground-breaking and much-needed resource for those wanting to understand, treat, and prevent eating disorders."
Margo Maine, Clinical Psychologist, author and co-founder of the Maine & Weinstein Specialty Group.
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