![]() ![]() This continuous interjection of hindsight, scientific backup, personal impressions, and painful insight brings the issue of eating disorders into the realm of the human, providing the reader with a solid idea of what the illness looks like from inside the patient, building a new understanding with every turn of the page.The book is a memoir of one woman’s journey through the disease and is presented exactly as such. Interspersed here and there is the odd statistic or scientific quote that helps to illuminate various aspects of what the illness entails, such as her preoccupation with food or the evidence that suggests girls who mature early are more likely to suffer from eating disorders. Rather than presenting her story in the detached, rather clinical way in which many of these stories are presented, Hornbacher takes an in-depth look into her own soul, writing out the events of her life in sequential order, yet imbuing the text with her own impressions, ideas and beliefs as she grew up. ![]() In many ways, the illness becomes her way of defining herself, and treatment options must therefore provide an alternative means of identification if it is to have any chance of success. ![]()
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