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Starving Women. A Psychology of Anorexia Nervosa. Spring Publications. Dallas, 1983. Pp. 138. Paperback. N.p.
Eating disorders have become all too commonplace. They have taken on epidemic proportions. A spate of books on the subject is therefore to be expected.
It was with some trepidation that I agreed to review yet another two which, nevertheless, provided an unexpected bonus. At long last, both opened the way to a shift from the exclusively personal and family approach to anorexia nervosa. The two authors, each in her own way, recognise the relevance of the transpersonal, of collective forces on the aetiology of this illness whilst approaching the subject quite differently. For this reason alone, and for the clarity, brevity and compactness of the books, they are to be welcomed.
Though anorexia and its counterpart bulimia are, in their acute form, unquestionably pathological conditions originating in disturbed interpersonal and family