«From witch to sick… […] The devil chased away by the birth of the reason has produced a void. Perhaps even more pathogenic for women … Religion and reason: two monstrous faces have condemned women to endless unhappiness …
In fact, it seems that now the real problem is this emptiness, this absence that man shows and that makes women sick … And it seems that the women themselves are looking for their persecutor: as long as they are sick, they seem to repeat destiny. They go to deliver themselves into the hands of the indifferent rationals who destroy them. And so a destiny of unhappiness will continue… ».
The essays collected here are linked by a shared theme, which is that of the psychotherapy of Anorexia. They fully reflect the conference on the subject, held in Rome on June 27, 2008, which was attended by doctors, psychologists and psychotherapists.
The actuality of the topic dealt with by the speakers Elisabetta Amalfitano, Letizia Del Pace, Sandra Mallone and by the curator of the Acts, and the interest that psychotherapeutic approaches are increasingly attracting from the general public make this book the necessary follow-up to the previous one entitled Anorexia: History, psychopathology and clinic of a modern epidemic.
