Acknowledgments -- Introduction : Confidences and lies -- Chronicity : the myth of recovery -- Adolescence : girls in women's clothing : eating disorders stunt psychological development -- Young adulthood : she, he, and it : a lover's triangle -- Pregnancy : an oasis in an eating-disordered life -- Parenting years : a kind of sibling rivalry : when the eating disorder competes with children -- Midlife : eating disorders : millstones or stepping-stones? -- Late life : never too old to be too thin -- Healing : the ongoing chapter in an eating-disordered life -- Appendix 1 : Helpful organizations -- Appendix 2 : Directory of treatment facilities -- Appendix 3 : The clinical definitions of eating disorders -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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