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Sensing the Self : Women's Recovery from Bulimia
Sensing the Self Women's Recovery from Bulimia Author:Sheila M. Reindl While many books describe the descent into eating disorders and the resulting emotional and physical damage, this book describes recovery. Psychologist Sheila Reindl has listened intently to women's accounts of recovery and argues compellingly that people with bulimia nervosa avoid turning their attention inward to consult their needs, desires, ... more »feelings, and aggressive strivings because to do so is to encounter an annihilating sense of shame. To recover, bulimic women need to develop a sense of self—to attune to their physical, psychic, and social self-experience. "In a field that is overflowing with theories and therapies, this book offers a useful set of tools and insights about bulimia … [Sensing the Self] provides a very good examination of the complex components and issues involved in this life-threatening illness." —R. Kabatznick, Choice "Bolstering the stories of her subjects with other research and writings as well as her own clinical experience, [Reindl] detects a pattern that resembles, but does not mimic, the patterns of other addictions. What she found was a sense of shame, of being 'inadequate and bad' … [Sensing the Self] is sensitive, informative, and likely to be helpful to both client and therapist." —Kirkus Reviews« less