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

Roth, Geneen

ISBN 10: 0525249672 / ISBN 13: 9780525249672

Published by Penguin Publishing Group, 1991

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Synopsis:

Examines the link between eating disorders and the need for intimacy, probing the emotional motivations behind binging and compulsive dieting

Reviews: This is the fourth book ( Feeding the Hungry Heart, etc.) generated by the seminars Roth conducts at her Berkeley, Calif., home for people who believe that if they were thin, they would be happy. But the author makes clear that losing weight doesn't automatically gain one success, respect and love. Roth's personal story and those of her clients as related here exemplify the need to discover why the overweight are addicted to food. Citing her own deprived childhood, the author demonstrates that gluttons seek the reliable comforts of eating instead of closeness with humans who might become abusive (like her mother) or vanish (like her father). Those bent on self-improvement will find that the book merely repeats well-known principles in a melodramatic fashion.
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Bibliographic Details

Title: When Food Is Love : Exploring the ...
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Date: 1991
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Edition: 1ST.