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In this memoir, a bright, chubby girl believes that thinness is next to godliness and so attends one of the first meetings of Over-eaters Anonymous in 1975. Her 20s are marked by yo-yo dieting, depressive episodes and a sadistic shrink. Then, just as her dream of being a writer is within reach, entering Columbia's prestigious MFA programme, she spirals into a suicidal depression and lands for a six-month stay at New York State Psychiatric Institute. There a young resident helps her take her first steps towards self-hood, unraveling the self-loathing of an eating disorder coupled with a paralyzing mood disorder. He also helps her confront a tragic family secret - whose silence had enveloped an otherwise average Jewish middle-class family - and begin, finally, to heal. "Food and Loathing" is a book about how people use food to narcotize, to love and to escape. It's about therapy - the good, the bad and the down right destructive - and about every woman who spends too much of her life thinking about her weight and how she can forgive herself for living.
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