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Search - When Food Is Love : Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy
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Book Description:
This is the fourth book ( Feeding the Hungry Heart, etc.) generated by the seminars Roth conducts at her Berkeley, Calif., home for people who believe that if they were thin, they would be happy. But the author makes clear that losing weight doesn't automatically gain one success, respect and love. Roth's personal story and those of her clients as related here exemplify the need to discover why the overweight are addicted to food. Citing her own deprived childhood, the author demonstrates that gluttons seek the reliable comforts of eating instead of closeness with humans who might become abusive (like her mother) or vanish (like her father). Those bent on self-improvement will find that the book merely repeats well-known principles in a melodramatic fashion.
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If you would like to read about THE AUTHOR'S relationship between eating and intimacy, then you will enjoy this book. If you intend to read this to acquire any understanding of eating and intimacy, skip it! This writing is as self-centered as they get.
Well written with some good points!
This is the fourth book ( Feeding the Hungry Heart, etc.) generated by the seminars Roth conducts at her Berkeley, Calif., home for people who believe that if they were thin, they would be happy. But the author makes clear that losing weight doesn't automatically gain one success, respect and love. Roth's personal story and those of her clients as related here exemplify the need to discover why the overweight are addicted to food. Citing her own deprived childhood, the author demonstrates that gluttons seek the reliable comforts of eating instead of closeness with humans who might become abusive (like her mother) or vanish (like her father).
Mary F. from SUN CITY WEST, AZ wrote on 10/8/2006...Excellent! Great insight into the world of over-eating.
Alice H. from ROSWELL, GA wrote on 9/3/2006...This boook is about breaking free from compulsive eating and shows how dieting and compulsive eating often become a substitute for intimacy.
Linda C. ("When Food Is Love is Roth's seminal work. This a big, beautiful, and important book. I cannot say ehough about it. I hope everyone reads it." - Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bones