{"product_id":"beyond-anorexia-narrative-spirituality-and-recovery-paperback-9780521629836","title":"Beyond Anorexia; Narrative, Spirituality and Recovery (Paperback) 9780521629836","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBeyond Anorexia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNarrative, Spirituality and Recovery\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA sociological exploration of eating disorders and the first book to focus exclusively on recovery.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCatherine Garrett (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521629836, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 13 October 1998\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e260 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.3 x 1.9 cm, 0.425 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"In this unconventional look at eating disorders, Garrett addresses the existential and spiritual questions surrounding anorexia nervosa.\"    Choice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBeyond Anorexia is a sociological exploration of how people recover from what medicine labels 'eating disorders', and the first book to focus exclusively on recovery. Beginning with her own autobiography, and drawing on conversations with over thirty other former sufferers, Catherine Garrett demonstrates that narrative is fundamental to social theory and to healing. Her central claim is that recovery is a 'spiritual' experience reconnecting the self with body, nature and society. She analyses spirituality and its relationship with formal religion along with its association with the ascetic rituals of eating disorders. Recovery is shown to be key to full understanding of anorexia, and the processes associated with recovery are explored in terms of embodied spirituality. Using the anthropological theories of Durkheim and van Gennep and contemporary theories of the body, Catherine Garrett reveals some of the social sources of recovery - the solution - which exist alongside the causes of the problem.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Personal Sociology: 1. Descent and return\u003cbr\u003e 2. Researching recovery\u003cbr\u003e 3. Autobiography, narrative and healing\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Anorexia and Recovery: 4. Reinterpreting 'anorexia'\u003cbr\u003e 5. Reinterpreting 'recovery'\u003cbr\u003e 6. Recovery stories\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Spirituality: 7. Society and spirit\u003cbr\u003e 8. Rituals of self-transformation\u003cbr\u003e 9. Spiritual stories\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Body: 10. Recreating the body\u003cbr\u003e 11. The sexual body\u003cbr\u003e 12. The knowing body\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Appendices.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Illness \u0026amp; addiction: social aspects [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Illness \u0026amp; addiction: social aspects\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Illness%20\u0026amp;%20addiction:%20social%20aspects%20%5BJFFH%5D%22\"\u003eJFFH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46000625287448,"sku":"9780521629836","price":33.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521629836i_e84258e1-5e94-4f54-a034-a9fb0ac39bd4.jpg?v=1691379229","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/beyond-anorexia-narrative-spirituality-and-recovery-paperback-9780521629836","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}