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The Golden Cage
More than five million Americans suffer from eating disorders, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, and an estimated 1,000 women die each year from anorexia nervosa. Often quoting her patients' descriptions of their own experience of illness and recovery, Hilde Bruch described the relentless pursuit of thinness and the search for superiority in self-denial that characterize anorexia nervosa.
Conversations with Anorexics
From Publisher's Weekly: This posthumous collection of case material illustrates the treatment modality successfully employed by psychiatrist Bruch with patients suffering from the eating disorder of anorexia. Two of her associates at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston have edited this final work, taped by the author before her death in 1984. Bruch makes the reader privy to the therapeutic transaction between her patients who are in what she describes as "the relentless pursuit of thinness.'' Emphasizing the conversational ambiance of the therapy and discounting heretofore unsuccessful approaches of psychoanalysis and behavior modification, she helped her patients to heal. The dramatic dialogues in the cases presented allow us to hear these desperate young anorexic women individually explore their thwarted development, under the direction of a compassionate physician who guides them towards wellness.
Learning Psychotherapy
Bruch sets out to accomplish what has, until now, been all but impossible--the teaching of psychotherapy using the written word. Bruch's unique success at a task that has been tried and tried again, only to result in stereotyped do's and don'ts, stems from her own experiences with two great teachers: Harry Stack Sullivan and Frieda Fromm-Reichmann.
Eating Disorders
This book accurately describes the cognitive processes that lead to and are present in someone with an eating disorder. Several case histories on individuals with anorexia nervosa and obesity are presented. It probes the emotional causes and effects of abnormal eating patterns.
The Golden Cage
First published more than twenty years ago, with almost 150,000 copies sold, The Golden Cage is still the classic book on anorexia nervosa, for patients, parents, mental health trainees, and senior therapists alike. Writing in direct, jargon-free style, often quoting her patients’ descriptions of their own experience of illness and recovery, Bruch describes the relentless pursuit of thinness and the search for superiority in self-denial that characterizes anorexia nervosa. She emphasizes the importance of early diagnosis and offers guidance on danger signs. Little-known when this groundbreaking book was first published, eating disorders have become all too familiar. Sympathetic and astute, The Golden Cage now speaks to a new generation.
Conversations W Anor
"The last book by the world's leading authority on the emotional aspects of anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders shows how this remarkably gifted healer helped many desperate young women."--From back cover.
The Anorexic Self
Critically examines diagnostic and popular discourses on eating disorders.
Holy Anorexia
“A brilliant, disturbing study of anorexic behavior amongst medieval Italian female saints . . . original, controversial, superbly executed.” —Kirkus Reviews Is there a resemblance between the contemporary anorexic teenager counting every calorie in her single-minded pursuit of thinness, and an ascetic medieval saint examining her every desire? Rudolph M. Bell suggests that the answer is yes. “Everyone interested in anorexia nervosa . . . should skim this book or study it. It will make you realize how dependent upon culture the definition of disease is. I will never look at an anorexic patient in the same way again.” —Howard Spiro, M.D., Gastroenterology “[This] book is a first...
The Secret Language of Eating Disorders
Reveals her groundbreaking theories on the cure for illnesses that current medicine treats with little success. She developed her unique insights into eating disorders through successfully treating her own 2 anorexic daughters and hundreds of acutely ill patients. She is convinced that eating disorders stem from a complex negative mindset which causes sufferers to feel an overwhelming sense of worthlessness that results in a process of self-destruction. She maintains that this mindset -- and the resulting eating disorder -- can be permanently reversed. She describes the origins of the negative mindset and the 5 stages of recovery from eating disorders. Illustrated.
