Unrestricted: How I Stepped Off the Tightrope, Learned to Say No, and Silenced Anorexia

In Unrestricted, Dawn Brockett challenges the pervasive belief that anorexia is compelled by a desire to control. Having battled and beaten severe restrictive anorexia herself, she proposes that anorexia is triggered by a lack of the space a young woman needs to fully individuate- to become who she chooses to be without being controlled by others.

Given how long treatment paradigms have held firm to this belief about control-and the limited progress we've made in treating anorexia, the dead...