Marya Hornbacher: 7 books

Marya Hornbacher, author of the international best-sellers Madness and Wasted, offers an enlightening examination of the Twelve Steps for those with co-occurring addiction and mental health disorders. In this beautifully written recovery handbook, New York Times best-selling author Marya Hornbacher...

An astonishing dispatch from inside the belly of bipolar disorder, reflecting major new insights When Marya Hornbacher published her first book, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, she did not yet have the piece of shattering knowledge that would finally make sense of the chaos of her...

For those who don't believe in God—or don't know whether they believe— New York Times best-selling author Marya Hornbacher offers an insightful, moving approach to the concept of faith. Many of us have been trained to think of spirituality as the sole provenance of religion; and if we have...

Why would a talented young woman enter into a torrid affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Through five lengthy hospital stays, endless therapy, and the loss of family, friends, jobs, and all sense of what it means to be "normal," Marya Hornbacher lovingly embraced her anorexia and...

At the center of winter, in Motley, Minnesota, Arnold Schiller gives in to the oppressive season that reigns outside and also to his own inner demons -- he commits suicide, leaving a devastated family in his wake. Claire Schiller, wife and mother, takes shelter from the emotional storm with...

L'AUTOBIOGRAFIA DI UN'ANORESSICA BULIMICA. Intelligente, precoce, energica e ambiziosa, Marya Hornbacher è cresciuta in una tipica famiglia borghese americana. Inizia a pensare di essere grassa a cinque anni. A nove è bulimica e a dodici anoressica. E si vanta della sua incredibile capacità di...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Wasted and Madness, a richly reported dispatch from the frontiers of science and medicine, and from the lives of real people proving that mental illness can be healed