Eating Disorders and Magical Control of the Body C2W this collection highlights the practices

this collection highlights the practices of youth’s identities in the context of broadly defined educative sites

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New chapters address Epigenetics

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Eating Disorders and Magical Control of the Body C2W this collection highlights the practicesPeople with eating disorders often make desparate attempts to exert magical control over their bodies in response to the threats they experienced in relationships. Mary Levens takes the reader into the realm of magical thinking and its effect on ideas about eating and the body through a sensitive exploration of the images patients create in art therapy, in which themes of cannibalism constantly recur. Drawing on anthropology, religion and literature