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Anorexia Nervosa and Other Dyscontrol Syndromes by Professor Dr. E. L. Edelstein (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Anorexia Nervosa and Other Dyscontrol Syndromes about?

What is that which gleams through me and smites my heart without wounding it? I am both a-shudder and a-glow. St. Augustine It is wonder and awe that I feel in view of the individual's power to create self-therapeutic devices. This book is the saga of these young in dividuals, who change and recreate the shape and dimensions of their bodies in a quest to achieve and finally demonstrate autonomy. Ironically, it seems that they can go on living thanks to their exces sive behavior, their hunger, and their deviances. They exhibit an ex treme polarity, an "either-or": the thrill of excesses, the joy of giving in to pleasure, versus masochistic enjoyment and pride curbing, procras tinating and mastering these impulses almost to the absolute by simple force of effort and sublimatory strength. Somewhat alien to the medi cal profession, these maladies are self-induced, and only make sense if their symbolism is recognized and understood using a hermeneutic ap proach. It aptly reflects their interaction with other objects, both human and nonhuman. The anorectic girl, to whom the book is specifically devoted, rejects any human bond in a masochistic way and also denies that her own body is a wo

Who reads Anorexia Nervosa and Other Dyscontrol Syndromes?

Author

Professor Dr. E. L. Edelstein (auth.)

Publisher

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9783540192817

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Medical, Medicine