Brave girl eating
Subtitle: a family's struggle with anorexia
By: Harriet Brown
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780061725470
Subjects: Patients; Mothers and daughters; Anorexia; Anorexia nervosa; Biography; Eating disorders
Description: "Millions of families are affected by eating disorders, which usually strike young women between the ages of fourteen and twenty. But current medical practice ties these families' hands when it comes to helping their children recover. Conventional medical wisdom dictates separating the patient from the family and insists that "it's not about the food," even as a family watches a child waste away before their eyes. Harriet Brown shows how counterproductive--and heartbreaking--this approach is by telling her daughter's story of anorexia. She describes how her family, with the support of an open-minded pediatrician and a therapist, helped her daughter recover using family-based treatment, also known as the Maudsley approach"-- Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-268)