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Synopsis Eight million females in the US suffer from diagnosed eating disorders. They are the teenage walking skeletons or binging/vomiting college students who fill the pages of psychology texts and color the stories of TV docudramas. This book is not about them. Lying in Weight is about older women--women getting married, women
giving birth to and raising babies, and women facing middle age; these
are women who battle in the throes of a subtler, more insidious kind of
eating disorder. Lying in Weight will tell individual stories of
women struggling toward recovery. The stories will be supported by state-of-the-art
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| Author's
Note: In writing this book, I aim to help readers better understand the meaning behind a plate of food and a pound of flesh. I want to illuminate how adults — at all stages of their lives — are crying out with their bodies as a destructive means to say what they need. I wish to prod the psychological community to enlarge the scope of their projects, including therapy, to older women in addition to teens. For every woman who is suffering from an eating disorder or disordered eating, for her mother, daughters, sisters and friends, no matter what her age, I hope to impart strength and solidarity. By joining together we can engender hope. |
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