# Food And Loathing

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/betsy-lerner/food-and-loathing

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- Authors: [Betsy Lerner](https://www.bookquiver.com/betsy-lerner)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2016-03-24

## Description

In FOOD AND LOATHING a bright, chubby girl believes that thinness is next to godliness and so attends one of the first meetings of Overeaters Anonymous in 1975. Her twenties 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 program, 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 selfhood, unravelling the self-loathing of an eating disorder coupled with a paralysing mood disorder. He also helps her confront a tragic family secret whose silence had enveloped an otherwise average Jewish middle-class family. FOOD AND LOATHING is a book about how people use food to narcotise, 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 - and even learn to love.

## Editions

### Food And Loathing

- Publisher: virago
- ISBN: 978-03-4900-847-9
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2016-04-28
- Language: en_GB

### Food And Loathing

- Publisher: virago
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-4900-866-0
- Published: 2016-03-24
- Language: en_GB