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ISBN:	0061725471 (ISBN13: 9780061725470)
Edition Language:	English

Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia

Harriet Brown

Hardcover | Pages: 288 pages

Rating: 3.86 | 2563 Users | 291 Reviews

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Title	:	Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia
Author	:	Harriet Brown
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	August 24th 2010 by William Morrow (first published August 9th 2010)
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Psychology. Health. Mental Health

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“One of the most up to date, relevant, and honest accounts of one family’s battle with the life threatening challenges of anorexia. Brown has masterfully woven science, history, and heart throughout this compelling and tender story.”
—Lynn S. Grefe, Chief Executive Officer, National Eating Disorders Association

“As a woman who once knew the grip of a life-controlling eating disorder, I held my breath reading Harriet Brown’s story. As a mother of daughters, I wept for her. Then cheered.”
—Joyce Maynard, author of Labor Day

In Brave Girl Eating, the chronicle of a family’s struggle with anorexia nervosa, journalist, professor, and author Harriet Brown recounts in mesmerizing and horrifying detail her daughter Kitty’s journey from near-starvation to renewed health. Brave Girl Eating is an intimate, shocking, compelling, and ultimately uplifting look at the ravages of a mental illness that affects more than 18 million Americans.

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Ratings: 3.86 From 2563 Users | 291 Reviews

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Excellent book. I wish I could get my SIL to read it and stop living in denial about my niece. I really do to want my niece to die.

Overall, I thought the book was very insightful about the suffering a family endures when a relative has an eating disorder. You rarely hear about eating disorders from this perspective, so I thought it was very unique. I also was ultimately glad I read it because I was very unfamiliar with the approach. The points that bothered me were her stance with psychology and her writing style. Perhaps I'm defensive both because I'm a psychology major at school, and I go to therapy, but it really

Meh....not great. While I'm completely empathetic for this woman and her family, her writing style and opinionated approach towards science and health care could be dangerous for readers who might look to this book for actual information and guidance. I think she needed to write this book on some level in order to heal, but the way she writes about different psychological theories that she doesn't agree with is both disrespectful and uninformed. I'm happy that refeeding worked in this case, but



I rarely read non-fiction, but I found this one to be excellent. The author is a science journalist who writes about her family's experience with a teenage daughter's anorexia. I liked how proactive the author was dealing with the disease. Her writing style was clean and there is a lot of reference to past research studies, which was very informative. As the mother of a teenager, (albeit a 14 yo boy, whom I can in no way ever visualize restricting food, but I could certainly relate to the

****Update: 25/3/2012: The massive thread that follows just totally reaffirms every point I made in the review. All of this from a writer whose work appears in the New York Times? Nice. Enjoy.********Update: 21/3/2012: I need to give credit where credit is due. For an eloquent and informative review (NOT AUTHORED BY ME) of Brave Girl Eating that, unlike my review, places facts over rage, please see http://www.amazon.com/review/R1F9BQBA... For scathing snark and wrath, my review is below.****

Amazing book -- a very different perspective on causes and treatment of eating disorders. As someone with two siblings with eating disorders and a child in therapy for mental health issues, I was awed and inspired by this mother's dedication to family-based therapy.