Title I wish I were thin, I wish I were fat : the real reasons we overeat and what we can do about it / Michelle Joy Levine

Edition First Fireside edition Published New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 1999

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Description 232 pages ; 22 cm Contents Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Preface -- Part One -- Food For Thought -- Food for Thought -- Fattening Wishes -- Our Unconscious -- Wishes Can Come True -- Part Two -- Hungry For You -- Hungry for You -- Loss of Childhood Bliss -- Eating to Recover the Lost Union -- Merged or Lonely -- "The Pounds Have Been Melting Away" -- Nurturing Ourselves Emotionally -- Feast or Famine -- The Ba-Ba -- Eating to Comfort -- Fantasy -- The Golden Fantasy -- Cannibalistic Fantasies -- Filling the Emptiness -- Filling the Void -- The Experiment -- Part Three -- To Be Or Not To Be: That Is The Question -- To Be or Not to Be: That Is the Question -- In Complete Control -- Now I Have Control -- Defiance -- Defying Overeating -- Overeating to Please -- Prisoners of Childhood -- Pleasing Yourself -- Part Four -- Oedipus Rex -- Oedipus Rex -- Oedipal Wishes -- Resolution or Not -- "Chocolate Is Something You Have an Affair With" -- Allowing Ourselves to Be Sexually Desirable -- Part Five -- The Evil Eye -- The Evil Eye -- "Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall" -- A Voracious Hunger -- "I Thought If I Became Pretty My Mother Would Die" -- I'm Just an Unattractive, Unassuming Fat Individual -- Being Beautiful and Tolerating Envy -- Part Six -- Failing To Eat Or Eating To Fail -- Masochism -- Failing to Eat or Eating to Fail -- Freedom from Suffering -- Part Seven -- Those Eating-My-Heart-Out Blues -- Those Eating-My-Heart-Out Blues -- Eating the Pain Away -- "No One Loves Me as I Want to Be Loved" -- Hunger Pains -- Part Eight -- Smorgasbord -- Smorgasbord -- Wonderful Connections -- Losing Weight Versus the Feeling of Invulnerability -- The Unthinkable and Unspeakable -- Separating Trauma from Sexuality -- Part Nine -- Furthermore -- Developing Awareness -- The Quest for the Perfect Body -- Diet and Exercise -- Getting Help -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index Notes "A Fireside book." Originally published: Huntington Station, N.Y. : Vanderbilt Press, c1997 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [222]-224) and index Subject Compulsive eaters -- Patients -- Rehabilitation. Compulsive eating -- Psychological aspects. Eating disorders -- Psychological aspects. LC no. 98054812 ISBN 0684857383 (paperback)

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