Pre-Owned The Hungry Self : Women, Eating and Identity (Paperback)

Some five million American women suffer from eating disorders ranging from compulsive dieting to compulsive eating, anorexia, and bulimia. THE HUNGRY SELF explores the often troubled relationship between mothers and daughters and how daughters of all ages and backgrounds often flee the struggle for identity and self-development into an obsession with food. Answers the need for help among the five million American women who suffer from eating disorders. "An inspired psychoanalytic meditation on contemporary female identity and eating disorders."--Phyllis Chesler