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Name: The Golden Cage
Rating: 3.25 (4 reviews)
Author: Hilde Bruch

In "The Golden Cage," renowned psychiatrist Hilde Bruch draws on her extensive clinical experience to illuminate the complex phenomenon of anorexia nervosa. She explains that the condition is not merely a lack of appetite but an obsessive drive toward extreme thinness, pursued even in the face of hunger, pain, and potentially fatal outcomes. Most sufferers are adolescent or preadolescent girls who, despite otherwise good upbringing, feel trapped in a "golden cage" of unattainable expectations. Bruch uses numerous case examples to describe the causes, consequences, and possible treatments of this eating disorder, offering a comprehensive psychological perspective.

First publish date: 1978

Genre: Health & Medicine/Women's Health

Authors: Hilde Bruch

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