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A Family's Struggle with Anorexia
HarperCollins
September 2010
On Sale: August 24, 2010
288 pages
ISBN: 0061725471
EAN: 9780061725470
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
I've never had anorexia, but I know it well. I see it on the
street, in the gaunt and sunken face, the bony chest, the
spindly arms of an emaciated woman. I've come to recognize
the flat look of despair, the hopelessness that follows,
inevitably, from years of starvation. I think: That could
have been my daughter. It wasn't. It's not. If I have
anything to say about it, it won't be. Millions of families are affected by eating disorders, which
usually strike young women between the ages of fourteen and
twenty. But current medical practice ties these families'
hands when it comes to helping their children recover.
Conventional medical wisdom dictates separating the patient
from the family and insists that "it's not about the food,"
even as a family watches a child waste away before their
eyes. Harriet Brown shows how counterproductive—and
heartbreaking—this approach is by telling her daughter's
story of anorexia. She describes how her family, with the
support of an open-minded pediatrician and a therapist,
helped her daughter recover using family-based treatment,
also known as the Maudsley approach. Chronicling her daughter Kitty's illness from the earliest
warning signs, through its terrifying progression, and on
toward recovery, Brown takes us on one family's journey into
the world of anorexia nervosa, where starvation threatened
her daughter's body and mind. But hope and love—of the
ordinary, family-focused kind—shine through every decision
and action she and her family took. Brave Girl Eating is
essential reading for families and professionals alike, a
guiding light for anyone who's coping with this devastating
disease.
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