If you know, Are eating disorders still a big problem there? I cant imagine they have gotten better, with all of the competition in a boarding school setting.
I'm not sure what kind of feeling you're hoping to get, but as far as quality goes I can't recommend Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia highly enough. The subject matter is grim, but the woman is a genius, and her writing is beyond beautiful. It's a beautiful, dark book with jagged edges, and extremely well-researched.
Yeah, it's a term for someone suffering from anorexia - the only people I really hear using it are girls who avidly read Wasted, though. :/
I'm sure their list of famous alumni is long.
If you know, Are eating disorders still a big problem there? I cant imagine they have gotten better, with all of the competition in a boarding school setting.
In addition to Yalom and Oliver Sacks:
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness by Ellen Saks
Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher
The Mummy at the Dining Room Table - Eminent Therapists Reveal Their Most Unusual Cases and What They Teach Us About Human Behavior by Jeffrey Cottler and Jon Carlson
I'm not sure what kind of feeling you're hoping to get, but as far as quality goes I can't recommend Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia highly enough. The subject matter is grim, but the woman is a genius, and her writing is beyond beautiful. It's a beautiful, dark book with jagged edges, and extremely well-researched.