The author shows how dieting and compulsive eating can become a substitute for intimacy. The author examines the crucial issues that surround compulsive eating, need for control, dependency on melodrama, desire for what is forbidden. The author shows why many people overeat in an attempt to satisfy their emotional hunger, and why weight loss frequently uncovers a new set of problems. The book will help readers break destructive, self perpetuating patterns and learn to satisfy all the hungers.
Authors: Roth Geneen
Publishers: Plume Book
Date of Publication: 1991
No. of pages: 205