From Virtue to Vice: Negotiating Anorexia

by Penny van Esterik and Richard A. O'Connor

The recovered possess the key to overcoming anorexia. Although individual sufferers do not know how the affliction takes hold, piecing their stories together reveals two accidental afflictions. One is that activity disorders-dieting, exercising, healthy eating-start as virtuous practices, but become addictive obsessions. The other affliction is a developmental disorder, which also starts with the virtuous-those eager for challenge and change...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782384553
• ISBN13: 9781782384557
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"