Surviving Madness: A Therapist's Own Story

The essays collected here explore the power and sensuality that food engenders within literature. The book permits the reader to sample food as a rhetorical structure, one that allows the individual writers to articulate the abstract concepts in a medium that is readily understandable.
The second part of Cooking by the Book turns to the more diverse food rhetorics of the marketplace. What, for example, is the fast food rhetoric? Why are there so many eating disorders in our society? Is it possible to teach philosophy through cookery? How long has vegetarianism been popular?"

Author: Betty Berzon
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 06/15/1989
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.38w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9780299176204
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Women's Review of Books 09/01/2002 pg. 9
Lambda Book Report 09/01/2002 pg. 13

About the Author
Betty Berzon has been a psychotherapist for thirty years. A member of the American Psychological Association since 1964, she is author of several popular books, including Permanent Partners: Building Gay and Lesbian Relationships That Last and Setting Them Straight: You Can Do Something About Bigotry and Homophobia In Your Life.