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In long-term residential treatment centers, an anorexic's food intake is weighed and measured, bite by bite.
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For more than a hundred years, parents have been regarded as an anorexic's biggest problem, and in 1978, in her book "Golden Cage," psychoanalyst Hilde Bruch suggested that narcissistic, cold and unloving parents (or, alternatively, hypercritical, overambitious and overinvolved ones) actually caused the disease by discouraging their children's natural maturation to adulthood.
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Operating and surfing pro-ana and "pro-ed" (for "pro – eating disorder") Web sites may be a form of therapy for many girls, but psychotherapist Steven Levenkron, who wrote the anorexic's bible, The Best Little Girl in the World, in 1978 and Anatomy of Anorexia in 2000, is concerned that the sites don't address the significant gradations of the illness.
Learning to Love Anorexia? 'Pro-Ana' Web Sites Flourish 2003
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A 13-year-old Chinese sweat shop worker churns out the Barbies that shape an American teenage anorexic's sense of her self.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Nobody can really get inside the anorexic's mind like the anorexic.
Pop Crunch Castina 2010
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"Nobody can really get inside the anorexic's mind like the anorexic," she said.
ImNotObsessed.com 2010
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"Nobody can really get inside the anorexic's mind like the anorexic," she said.
ImNotObsessed.com Tracee 2010
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Nobody can really get inside the anorexic's mind like the anorexic.
Pop Crunch 2010
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"Nobody can really get inside the anorexic's mind like the anorexic," she said.
RadarOnline RSS 2010
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Basically, these sites are the anorexic's and bulimic's heavenly library.
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