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Creating Bodies - Eating Disorders as Self-Destructive Survival (Paperback)
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Creating Bodies - Eating Disorders as Self-Destructive Survival (Paperback)
Series: Relational Perspectives Book Series
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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 understandHannah's projects
of self-destruction and reconstruction.
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