Feast of Famine: A Physician's Personal Struggle to Overcome Anorexia Nervosa

by Joan M. Johnston

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0941405265
• ISBN13: 9780941405263
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: RPI Publishing
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Saved my life

This book saved my life - it was not until I read my own thoughts on the pages of this book did I realize I was anorexic and that I, like Dr. Johnston, was dieing. It takes great courage to put your own story on paper in the honest fashion that Dr. Johnston does. My suggestion - look for the similarities, not the differences. Recovery is possible.

Physician, heal thyself

What happens when the doctor gets sick? Who "doctors" the doctor?In this extremely personal book, Dr Joam Johnston takes you on a journey of the disease known as anorexia nervosa. The drive for thinness toke a large toll on Dr Johnston's health as well as helped destroy her marriage. Dr Johnston guides you thru the slow path to recovery and also educates you along the way. She also feels that anorexia nervosa is an addiction and should be treated in that manner. She even suggests an "Anorexia Anonymous" as "the only avenue to recovery."If you or a loved one suffer from this deadly disease, you must read this book. She offers much hope for recovery from this mostly misunderstood disease.