Beyond Anorexia: Narrative, Spirituality and Recovery
Beyond Anorexia is a sociological exploration of how people recover from what medicine labels as "eating disorders," and the first book to focus exclusively on recovery. Beginning with her own personal story, and drawing on conversations with over thirty other former sufferers, Catherine Garrett demonstrates the fundamental importance of narrative to social theory and to healing. Her central claim is that recovery is a "spiritual" experience (not necessarily a religious one), reconnecting the self with body, nature and society. As such it is the key to fully understanding anorexia.
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Beyond Anorexia: Narrative, Spirituality and Recovery
Beyond Anorexia is a sociological exploration of how people recover from what medicine labels as "eating disorders," and the first book to focus exclusively on recovery. Beginning with her own personal story, and drawing on conversations with over thirty other former sufferers, Catherine Garrett demonstrates the fundamental importance of narrative to social theory and to healing. Her central claim is that recovery is a "spiritual" experience (not necessarily a religious one), reconnecting the self with body, nature and society. As such it is the key to fully understanding anorexia.
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Beyond Anorexia: Narrative, Spirituality and Recovery

Beyond Anorexia: Narrative, Spirituality and Recovery

by Catherine Garrett
Beyond Anorexia: Narrative, Spirituality and Recovery

Beyond Anorexia: Narrative, Spirituality and Recovery

by Catherine Garrett

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Beyond Anorexia is a sociological exploration of how people recover from what medicine labels as "eating disorders," and the first book to focus exclusively on recovery. Beginning with her own personal story, and drawing on conversations with over thirty other former sufferers, Catherine Garrett demonstrates the fundamental importance of narrative to social theory and to healing. Her central claim is that recovery is a "spiritual" experience (not necessarily a religious one), reconnecting the self with body, nature and society. As such it is the key to fully understanding anorexia.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521620154
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/13/1998
Pages: 260
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Part I. Personal Sociology: 1. Descent and return; 2. Researching recovery; 3. Autobiography, narrative and healing; Part II. Anorexia and Recovery: 4. Reinterpreting 'anorexia'; 5. Reinterpreting 'recovery'; 6. Recovery stories; Part III. Spirituality: 7. Society and spirit; 8. Rituals of self-transformation; 9. Spiritual stories; Part IV. The Body: 10. Recreating the body; 11. The sexual body; 12. The knowing body; Epilogue; Appendices.
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