Word: anorexia
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...cigarette from her case, and lights a match. She stretches her long legs across the floor, resting her weight on the tiny pelvis outlined by her jeans. The smoke dances slowly around her soft, beautiful face as she begins to talk about why she is so thin, about her anorexia nervosa...
...egotism and vanity involved with anorexia is unbelievable," she says. "You spend hours a day examining yourself, looking at your body. Gaining one pound is a big thing." Unlike most anorexics, who deny there is anything wrong with them, she wants to talk about the strange disease she has for five years. But she doesn't want people to know...
...hungry, because she felt fat and wanted to be thin. When she got horribly skinny people got very worried but she thought she still needed to lose weight, and still she would not--or could not--eat. "It's this big secret," she says of the first stages of anorexia. "You're so guilty about it, but it's obvious that everybody knows about it. And you still think there's nothing wrong with...
...Salvador Minuchin, Director of ihe Philadelphia Child Guidance Center, has already attracted wide attention with his work on anorexia nervosa, the "starvation disease" (TIME, July 28). Now Minuchin and his team are concentrating on asthma and diabetes. In one case of diabetic sisters, ages twelve and 17, doctors found a metabolic defect, but only the younger sister responded to drugs and diet changes. A therapist found out why: each parent constantly tried to get her support in fights with the other parent. The allegiance of the twelve-year-old was not sought. Once the parents stopped trapping the older sister...
...many cases, family therapists argue, an outbreak of physical illness is both a symptom of high stress among family members and an attempt to cope with it. Minuchin says that anorexia nervosa victims are "saviors of the family" because they paper over parental conflicts that threaten to destroy the family. Psychiatrist Philip Guerin, director of the Center for Family Learning in New Rochelle, N.Y., finds that many fathers suffer heart attacks shortly after a grown son or daughter leaves home. His hypothesis: the child may have functioned as a buffer for parental conflict. Psychologist Dina Fleischer of Richmond...