Camille Cellier teaches at the University of Caen and is a psychiatric practitioner. She works with young women suffering from anorexia.
Why another book on anorexia? Because this book relates the true healing of a young woman. In it she tells of her journey as a combatant in overcoming anorexia, how she got back on her feet in reality, alone, without a therapist, through studies, work, and fighting against received ideas: “Anorexia cannot be cured …”

Beyond offering a personal account, this book also takes a critical look at the treatment methods currently being used in hospitals which for many are based on coercion, infantilization, and the patient’s isolation from her family. It denounces these practices which are the outcome only of theoretical prejudices, and which mistreat the patient. This is the first time an “ex-anorexic” has picked up her pen to fight these theories which, for some, confine the person in a determined “meaning” (relationship to the mother, failed sexual identification) or in an inescapable protocol (hospitalizations, family therapies).

A useful and unusual approach that demonstrates that one can overcome, escape anorexia. An rewarding and open life is possible after anorexia.