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From Virtue to Vice: Negotiating Anorexia

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From Virtue to Vice: Negotiating Anorexia - O'Connor, Richard A., and Esterik, Penny Van
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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. But these overachievers who seek self-improvement get a distorted life instead. ...

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From Virtue to Vice: Negotiating Anorexia 2015, Berghahn Books, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9781782384557

Hardcover