Anorectic (Innbundet)

Author:

Ingeborg Senneset

Norwegian title: Anorektisk
Author:
Binding: Innbundet
Year: 2017
Pages: 320
Publisher: Cappelen Damm
Språk: Bokmål
Originaltittel: Anorektisk
ISBN/EAN: 9788202486013
Kategori: Self Help
Overview Anorektisk

An honest, unflinching and unsentimental account of the illness from the inside.

How does a patient with anorexia and obsessive-compulsive disorder experience psychiatry? What kind of battles are fought inside a person that wants to end an illness that since childhood has acted as a lifeline and the same time been a lethal threat? What does it take to let go? How much does weight really matter?
Through admissions to three different psychiatric facilities for a total of three years, Ingeborg Senneset documented the slow task of regaining control over her own life. Through meetings with the best and the worst sides of health care, paradoxes and conflicts both on an interpersonal and private level, we get the whole story. Anorectic is an honest, ruthless and unsentimental depiction of the inside of the illness and the hospitals by an author that has the unique combination of being a patient, journalist and nurse.
"It is not a matter of writing less about eating disorders, as some people has suggested, but simply about writing better. The hard topics should be brought into the light, with all it´s complexity. Writing better means staying away from idealising and romanticising eating disorders, and rather bring out the dry, boring and dangerous facts in a precise way and using a clear language. This book i guaranteed to be free of romanticising."
Finn Skårderud, Psychiatrist, professor and writer.

"Heartbreakingly insightful, mercilessly self-exposing and brilliantly written about suffering from anorexia. (...) All together a useful book in the treatment of all sorts of compulsive disorders. Ingeborg Senneset is ruthlessly self biographical. Some parts are tragically funny, others will make you cry blood. Every word teaches us something. " Six stars out of six!
ADRESSEAVISA
"Ingeborg Sennesets dark howl from hell has despite all the pain and anxiety become a documentary that work like a guiding light for all those others. (...) Relatives, therapists and anyone who has ever wondered how this sickness is experienced. Anyone with the slightest fragment of empathy in them should read this book, to understand more about mental illness."

AFTENPOSTEN
"A merciless, unpleasant and intense story. Ingeborg Senneset writes in a way that makes us want to read. And hopefully there is something to learn."
MEDIER24.NO

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Reviews Anorektisk

Til å gråte blod over 03.05.2017

"Hjerteskjærende innsiktsfullt, nådeløst selvutleverende, og strålende skrevet om å lide av anoreksi.
[...] Til sammen er dette blitt til en bok som vil være nyttig i behandlingen av alle typer tvangslidelser.
Ingeborg Senneset er skånselløst selvbiografisk. Noe er komisk i all sin tragikk, noe er til å gråte blod over. Hvert ord er til å ta lærdom av, for pasienter som sliter med tvangslidelser og selvskading, for behandlerne de er i hendene på, ikke minst for innsparingskåte byråkrater."

 
Fartein Horgar, Adresseavisen

Ujålete 24.11.2017

Det er en rørende historie om Sennesets arbeid mot å vinne kontroll over eget liv. Boken bidrar til å løfte frem noen av de mange komplekse sidene ved anoreksi og er god bok for alle som ønsker dypere forståelse for hvordan livet med spiseforstyrrelse kan utarte seg.

 
Anne Tjønndal, Trønderavisa

Et rop fra bunnen av helvete 23.04.2017

"Ingeborg Sennesets mørke hyl fra helvete er tross all smerte og angst blitt en dokumentar som fungerer som et lys for alle oss andre. [...]
Alle pårørende, alle behandlere, alle som noensinne har lurt på hvordan det er å være syk, som har et fnugg av empatisk vilje i seg, bør lese denne boka, for å skjønne mer av psykisk sykdom"

Hilde Østby, Aftenposten

"En nådeløs, ubehagelig og spennende beretning. Ingeborg Senneset skriver så vi vil lese. Og forhåpentlig kan vi lære av det"

Bård Borch Michalsen, medier24.no

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Author Ingeborg Senneset

Ingeborg N. Senneset is a journalist with Aftenposten, lecturer, qualified nurse, former blogger and editor, and a deputy member of the board of Norwegian PEN. She works on debates, comments and news, along with social media and development of digital media. Senneset has made her mark in topics such as psychiatry, health, human rights, critical thought, science, religion, opposition to vaccines, monarchy, humanism and media criticism. The Anorexic Book is an account of the years she was in hospital.

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