Anorexia and bulimia: let's talk about it. 5 books to better understand eating disorders
1. To inquire
Simonetta Marucci - Laura Dalla Ragione, The soul needs a place. Eating disorders and identity research (Tecniche Nuove Editore)
This manual investigates the various pathologies related to eating disorders and may be useful for orienting you, understanding them and hypothesizing treatments and therapies. Getting informed is necessary to help ourselves and those around us, especially if we are dealing with such complex and multi-faceted problems.
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2. To admit one's own fragility
Elena Riva, The myth of perfection. Fragility and beauty in eating disorders (Mimesis)
Today's woman is subjected to the constant pressure of having to be multitasking, beautiful and very thin, professionally and relationally successful, and it is precisely this pressure that finds one of its main outlets in eating disorders. Psychologist Elena Riva helps us understand how admitting one's frailties certainly doesn't make us worse women.
3. To listen to the testimony of those who have passed through it
Fabiola De Clercq, All the bread in the world. Chronicle of a life between anorexia and bulimia (Bompiani)
The author of this book, after suffering first from bulimia and then from anorexia, decided to write down her experience so that it could be useful to as many people as possible. To read to feel less alone and understand that, with a little help, healing is possible.
4. To understand obesity
Renate Göckel, Women who overeat. When food serves to compensate for emotional discomfort (Feltrinelli)
Sometimes it happens to throw oneself on food to fill a void that is above all affective. Venting out in this way, the author writes, certainly does not help to feel less alone or more fulfilled, and so it is important to identify the problem and try to solve it at the root.
5. To understand anorexia
Paolo Crepet, The case of the woman who stopped eating (Einaudi)
This is the story of Fausta, written in a series of black notebooks collected by the woman over the years for her psychoanalyst. Her story is that of many women who refuse food because they refuse their body and do not consider it worthy of love, without realizing that they are the first not to give it to them.
