Amid the welter of clinical studies, memoirs, and other
death-defying tales of eating disorders, we remain unclear about
the relationships among trauma, anorexia, and bulimia, and about
the psychological pathways to recovery. Creating Bodies offers the
gripping story of healing and transformation detailed in one
woman's diaries. Hannah wrote 18 diaries between the ages of 14 and
32. In the excerpts reprinted herein, we watch Hannah navigate
violent adolescent friendships, descend into anorexia and bulimia,
marry an abusive man, struggle to recover memories of sexual abuse,
and finally to heal. And we learn of her interaction with Katie
Gentile, who analyzed her diaries and met with Hannah to discuss
the latter's own understanding of the diaries and of the diary
analysis. Through a close study of both the content and structure
of Hannah's diaries, Gentile shows how unspeakable, embodied
remnants of sexual trauma become symbolized and how, within this
process, Hannah's bulimia functioned as both an act of self
destruction and a lifesaving form of resistance. Anchored in
relational psychoanalysis and critical feminist theory, Creating
Bodies provides a uniquely longitudinal account of the development
of, and ultimate recovery from, an eating disorder fueled by
childhood sexual abuse. An invaluable contribution to the
literature on adolescent and adult eating disorders, it is also a
thoughtful meditation on how the act of writing deepens issues of
relationality and, over time, promotes cure. Psychoanalysts will be
intrigued by the rich process issues embedded in prose journals,
notes, and letters - both close to and distinct from clinical
process issues - that Gentile uses to understand Hannah's projects
of self-destruction and reconstruction.
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