{"product_id":"creating-bodies-eating-disorders-as-selfdestructive-survival-relational-perspectives-book-series","title":"Creating Bodies: Eating Disorders as SelfDestructive Survival (Relational Perspectives Book Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmid the welter of clinical studies, memoirs, and other deathdefying tales of eating disorders, we remain unclear about the relationships among trauma, anorexia, and bulimia, and about the psychological pathways to recovery.Creating Bodies offers the gripping story of healing and transformation detailed in one womans diaries. Hannah wrote 18 diaries between the ages of 14 and 32. In the excerpts reprinted herein, we watch Hannah navigate violent adolescent friendships, descend into anorexia and bulimia, marry an abusive man, struggle to recover memories of sexual abuse, and finally to heal. And we learn of her interaction with Katie Gentile, who analyzed her diaries and met with Hannah to discuss the latters own understanding of the diaries and of the diary analysis.Through a close study of both the content and structure of Hannahs diaries, Gentile shows how unspeakable, embodied remnants of sexual trauma become symbolized and how, within this process, Hannahs bulimia functioned as both an act of self destruction and a lifesaving form of resistance. Anchored in relational psychoanalysis and critical feminist theory, Creating Bodies provides a uniquely longitudinal account of the development of, and ultimate recovery from, an eating disorder fueled by childhood sexual abuse.An invaluable contribution to the literature on adolescent and adult eating disorders, it is also a thoughtful meditation on how the act of writing deepens issues of relationality and, over time, promotes cure. Psychoanalysts will be intrigued by the rich process issues embedded in prose journals, notes, and letters  both close to and distinct from clinical process issues  that Gentile uses to understand Hannahs projects of selfdestruction and reconstruction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Gentile, Katie \/ paperback","offer_id":47838011818229,"sku":"SONG0881634387","price":29.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/519AjcYjMzL.jpg?v=1773725986","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/creating-bodies-eating-disorders-as-selfdestructive-survival-relational-perspectives-book-series","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}