When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy

Roth, Geneen; Geneen Roth

ISBN 10: 0452268184 / ISBN 13: 9780452268180

Published by A Plume Book/Published by the Penguin Group, New York & London, 1992

About this Item

205 pp. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Minimally or mildly shelf worn. Creased lower corners of pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy
• Publisher: A Plume Book/Published by the Penguin Group, New York & London
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0452268184
• ISBN 13: 9780452268180
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Illustrator: Lucia Kim (Cover Design); Kathryn Kleinman/FoodPix (Cover Photo)
• Edition: 1st Plume Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy
  • Meditation, Spirituality, Inspiration
  • Guide Books, Handbooks, Manuals, How-To-Bks

About this title

Synopsis

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Women Food and God

“A life-changing book.”—Oprah

In this moving and intimate book, Geneen Roth, bestselling author of Feeding the Hungry Heart and Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating, shows how dieting and emotional eating often become a substitute for intimacy. Drawing on her own painful personal experiences, as well as the candid stories of those she has helped in her seminars, Roth examines the crucial issues that surround emotional eating: need for control, dependency on melodrama, desire for what is forbidden, and the belief that one wrong move can mean catastrophe. She shows why many people overeat in an attempt to satisfy their emotional hunger, and why weight loss frequently just uncovers a new set of problems. But her welcome message is that change is possible. This book will help readers break destructive, self-perpetuating patterns and learn to satisfy all the hungers—physical and emotional—that make us human.

About the Author

Geneen Roth is a writer and a teacher who has gained international prominence through her work in the field of eating disorders. She is the founder of the Breaking Free workshops, which she has conducted nationwide since 1979. She is also the author of Feeding the Hungry Heart, Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating, and When Food is Love. A frequent guest on television and radio programs, she has written for and been featured in Tie, Ms., New Woman, Family Circle, and Cosmopolitan. Her poetry and short stories have been published in numerous anthologies. Born in New York City, she now lives in northern California.