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008 130605s2013 nyu 000 0aeng
010 $a 2013022811
020 $a9781468306682 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aRC552.A5$bO75 2013
082 00 $a616.85/2620092$aB$223
084 $aBIO026000$aPSY011000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aOsgood, Kelsey.
245 10 $aHow to disappear completely :$bon modern anorexia /$cKelsey Osgood.
264 1 $aNew York :$bOverlook Press,$c[2013]
300 $a266 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"At fourteen, Kelsey Osgood became fascinated by the stories of women who starved themselves. She devoured their memoirs and magazine articles, committing the most salacious details of their cautionary tales to memory--how little they ate, their lowest weights, and their merciless exercise regimes--to learn what it would take to be the very best anorectic. When she was hospitalized for anorexia at fifteen, she found herself in an existential wormhole: how can one suffer from something one has actively sought out? Through her own decade-long battle with anorexia, which included three lengthy hospitalizations, Osgood harrowingly describes the haunting and competitive world of inpatient facilities populated with other adolescents, some as young as ten years old. With attuned storytelling and unflinching introspection, Kelsey Osgood unpacks the modern myths of anorexia, examining the cult-like underbelly of eating disorders in the young, as she chronicles her own rehabilitation. How to Disappear Completely is a brave, candid and emotionally wrenching memoir that explores the physical, internal, and social ramifications of eating disorders and subverts many of the popularly held notions of the illness and, most hopefully, the path to recovery. "--$cProvided by publisher.
600 10 $aOsgood, Kelsey$xMental health.
650 0 $aAnorexia$xPatients$xBiography.
650 0 $aEating disorders in adolescence$xPsychological aspects.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Eating Disorders.$2bisacsh
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