Anorexia Nervosa: Counselling and Self-Help Groups — An Introduction

Abstract

Anorexia presents two main problems, how to understand or explain the phenomenon and how best to help people who are displaying anorexic behaviour. To many people anorexia is a complete enigma. The idea of people starving themselves to emaciation, even to death, seems a phenomenon utterly devoid of meaning and an almost alien challenge to even primitive joy, and to life itself.