anorexia nervosa

The author reflects on her fourteen-year battle with bulimia and anorexia, discussing how the eating disorders have affected her life from childhood through the present day.

The author reveals the true story of her teenage daughter's recovery from anorexia nervosa that introduces a home-based treatment method developed at the Maudsley Hospital in London by Christopher Dare in 1987.

"[Diane] Israel, a Boulder-based psychotherapist and former champion triathlete, talks candidly about her long and agonizing personal struggle with eating disorders and obsessive exercising, fearlessly confronting her own painful past as she attempt to come to terms with American culture's unhealthy fixation on self-destructive ideals of beauty and competitiveness. The film lends context to Israel's personal odyssey with fascinating insights from athletes, bodybuilders, fashion models, and inner-city teens, as well as prominent cultural critics and authors"--Container.

Chronicles Grace Bowman's struggles with dieting, which began at the age of eighteen and quickly morphed into a life-threatening disease, and discusses secrets and myths about anorexia nervosa, and more.

Jack, who is sixteen and has anorexia, spends the summer in an eating disorder ward for teenagers and befriends both his overweight roommate and a dangerously thin dancer.

Describes the causes, effects, early warning signs, complicating factors, and medical and psychological treatments of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and other eating disorders.

Explores how eating disorders affect teenagers, discussing what eating disorders are, what causes them, how they impact health, and how they can be overcome.

The author meditates upon the issue of appetite as it relates to the lives of women, thinking about why women feel the need to suppress their appetites whether for food, love, work, or pleasure.

A former victim of anorexia nervosa, now a therapist, tells of her illness, treatment, and recovery.