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Radical Recovery: A Manifesto of Eating Disorder Pride
Eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder are some of the most deadly "mental illnesses;" however, research into the nature of these conditions and possible treatments remains virtually unfunded. As a result, there is no standard model of treatment for eating disorders and no definitive information on the number of people in the U.S. who suffer from one or more of these conditions. Radical Recovery openly addresses the national epidemic of eating disorders and offers practical suggestions for how to effectively promote awareness and change in a more responsible and compassionate way. Issues addressed include success rates for eating disorders treatment, current research, mortality and eating disorders, the presence of eating disorders in both sexes and all ages, overcoming social stigma, and eating disorders activism.
154 pages, Paperback
First published August 28, 2006
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July 25, 2018
read for Brehm research 18/19
Notes that mean something to me, but maybe not to anyone else.
Especially enjoyed Kraatz's framework for understanding disordered eating as a way of navigating the space between interior and exterior worlds - speaks to my understandings of myth and boundary worlds - food as something that passes between the external and internal worlds - boundary crossing - integration of food into the bodyself - reminds me of Megan Warin: food understood through the anthropological conception of magic (changing forms, transforming) - therefore, disordered eating as a form of controlling the unknown, controlling magic, navigating between inner and outer worlds (the Otherworld of myth etc) - similarly, draws on the notion of eating disorder as "reading disorders" - the idea that eating disordered folks misread and take texts "into their being" - integration of texts into personal mythography..... the literary components of eating disorders.
Notes that mean something to me, but maybe not to anyone else.
Especially enjoyed Kraatz's framework for understanding disordered eating as a way of navigating the space between interior and exterior worlds - speaks to my understandings of myth and boundary worlds - food as something that passes between the external and internal worlds - boundary crossing - integration of food into the bodyself - reminds me of Megan Warin: food understood through the anthropological conception of magic (changing forms, transforming) - therefore, disordered eating as a form of controlling the unknown, controlling magic, navigating between inner and outer worlds (the Otherworld of myth etc) - similarly, draws on the notion of eating disorder as "reading disorders" - the idea that eating disordered folks misread and take texts "into their being" - integration of texts into personal mythography..... the literary components of eating disorders.
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