Often quoting her patients' descriptions of their own experience of illness and recovery, Hilde Bruch described the relentless pursuit of thinness and the search for superiority in self-denial that characterize anorexia nervosa. schovat popis
The author shares her experience of the essential purpose of intensive psychotherapy as it has been shaped over her many years as a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and teacher. She sets forth a theoretical frame in straightforward and unmystical language without minimizing the complexities of demand that therapy makes on both patient and therapist