The Secret Language of Eating Disorders: How You Can Understand and Work to Cure Anorexia and Bulimia

by Peggy Claude-Pierre

Overview

"A provacative new analysis" (Newsweek) that offers a true path to healing eating disorders.

In this approachable look at the complex topic of eating disorders, Peggy Claude-Pierre examines the common misconceptions around anorexia and bulimia to discover the true causes and shares a groundbreaking path to healing.

"A gripping, often chilling view of what it's like to battle these horrific diseases."—Newsweek

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780375750182
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/29/1998
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.18(w) x 7.97(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

Peggy Claude-Pierre opened her outpatient practice specializing in eating disorders in 1988; the Montreaux Clinic began its residential inpatient program in 1993. Millions have been introduced to Claude-Pierre's gentle yet positive approach to the treatment of anorexia and bulimia, thanks to her appearances on 20/20 (the first show on her work won a Peabody Award for excellance) and Oprah. She consults with health professionals and government representatives in North and South America, Western and Eastern Europe, as well as Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. She has been nominated for the Kiwanis World Service Medal and the Institute of Noetic Sciences Altruism Award. She is currently working with the Montreaux staff to create a teaching clinic to offer professional training to others who wish to use the Montyreaux approach. She lives and works in Victoria, Canada.

Editorial Reviews

"Peggy Claude-Pierre is a warrior-—ferocious and relentless—whose work has rescued a decade of sufferers."                       
—Edward Feller, M.D., F.A.C.P., 
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, 
Brown University School of Medicine

"Peggy Claude-Pierre has created a paradigm shift in the way we view and treat anorexia. Peggy has shifted the focus of care from that of controlling the symptoms of disordered eating to healing the negativity that would otherwise plague the individual for the rest of his or her life. I have developed the utmost respect for her, for I realize that she has translated the secret language of anorexia. Now it is up to us to use the knowledge she has revealed." 
—Daniel J. Smith, M.D.

"Peggy Claude-Pierre's work begins where attachment to the limiting obstacles of theory end. She has brought back from the dead many young lives the world deemed hopeless.... There are many who possess the title of 'doctor' who have never come close to her incredible example of the selfless healer." 
—Craig T. Pratt, M.D., 
Chief, Division of Addiction Medicine, 
Grant-Riverside Methodist Hospital

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