Volume 26, Number 2 · February 22, 1979
The Starved Self
By Rosemary Dinnage
The Golden Cage: The Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa
by Hilde Bruch
Harvard University Press, 168 pp., $8.95
The Best Little Girl in the World
by Steven Levenkron
Contemporary Books, 196 pp., $8.95
Self-Starvation: From Individual to Family Therapy in the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa
by Mara Selvini Palazzoli
Jason Aronson, 296 pp., $15.00
Psychosomatic Families: Anorexia Nervosa in Context
by Salvador Minuchin, by Bernice L. Rosman, by Lester Baker
Harvard University Press, 351 pp., $15.00
They float in slow motion, the young girls, across fields of spring flowers, advertising hair spray and deodorants. Girlhood means white muslin and lace, innocence and purity; jeunes filles en fleur, milkmaids in sprigged cotton from Laura Ashley, dreaming. Here is one of their dreams:
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