Beyond Anorexia Narrative, Spirituality and Recovery

Name: Beyond Anorexia Narrative, Spirituality and Recovery
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ISBN: 9780521629836

ISBN-10: 0521629837

ISBN-13: 9780521629836

Edition: 1998

Authors: Catherine J. Garrett

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Beyond Anorexia is a sociological exploration of how people recover from what medicine labels eating disorders, and the first book to focus exclusively on recovery. Beginning with her own autobiography, and drawing on conversations with over thirty other former sufferers, Catherine Garrett demonstrates that narrative is fundamental to social theory and to healing. Her central claim is that recovery is a spiritual experience reconnecting the self with body, nature and society. She analyses spirituality and its relationship with formal religion along with its association with the ascetic rituals of eating disorders. Recovery is shown to be key to full understanding of anorexia, and the…

Book details

List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/13/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English




Personal Sociology



Descent and return



Researching recovery



Autobiography, narrative and healing



Anorexia and Recovery



Reinterpreting 'anorexia'



Reinterpreting 'recovery'



Recovery stories



Spirituality



Society and spirit



Rituals of self-transformation



Spiritual stories



The Body



Recreating the body



The sexual body



The knowing body


Epilogue


Appendices