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Regaining your self, breaking free from the eating disorder identity : a bold new approach, Ira M. Saker and Sheila Buff

eng

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non fiction

Regaining your self

71790350

Ira M. Saker and Sheila Buff

breaking free from the eating disorder identity : a bold new approach

A new understanding and approach to eating disorders from a renowned expert. Nearly 5 percent of Americans face an eating disorder--and eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. Long considered an affliction of young women, they are now common among young men, middle-aged women, and even children as young as five. This is a health crisis of epidemic proportions. This book offers hope in the battle against eating disorders through a radical new therapy technique pioneered by Dr. Sacker, who has been treating patients with eating disorders for thirty-five years. Filled with firsthand accounts from patients, family members, friends, and others, it provides what patients and their families desperately need: a therapeutic model that heals.--From publisher description

Identifying the disorder -- A diverse disorder -- Illusions of perfection -- Seeking identity -- Breaking free -- PIRT: a new approach -- The process of recovering the self -- The passion pursuit -- Family and community identity -- The trauma self