From Virtue to Vice

Name: From Virtue to Vice
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Negotiating Anorexia

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Food, Nutrition, and Culture

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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. Knowing anorexia from inside, the recovered offer two watchwords on helping those who suffer. One is "negotiate," to encourage compromise, which can aid recovery where coercion fails. The other is "balance," for the ill to pursue mind-with-body activities to defuse mind-over-body battles.

Author Biography:

Richard A. O'Connor is Biehl Professor of International Studies and Anthropology at The University of the South. He has held postdoctoral awards nationally (Fulbright, SSRC-ACLS, NEH) and abroad (Kyoto University and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies).

Release date Australia

March 1st, 2015

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Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Pages

252

Series

Food, Nutrition, and Culture

Dimensions

152x229x16

ISBN-13

9781782384557

Product ID

22362775

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