Voices of Eating Disorders

This much-needed anthology repositions personal narratives at the heart of conversations about eating disorders. Through a series of intimate, incisive essays, contributors reflect on their lived experiences, challenging dominant clinical frameworks and exposing the limitations of current healthcare practices.Taking an intersectional, feminist approach, the book bridges theory and practice, weaving together personal testimony with critical insight. It highlights how race, gender, class, sexuality, and disability shape experiences of disordered eating and recovery, offering a nuanced critique of systems that often fail to account for these complexities. The essays confront the harm caused by inadequate training among healthcare professionals, while also imagining more compassionate, trauma-informed models of care. This is a book that refuses to flatten experience into diagnosis, insisting instead on the value of story, context, and community.Voices of Eating Disorders is essential reading for clinicians, researchers, students, and anyone seeking to understand eating disorders beyond the clinical gaze. It is a call to listen, to learn, and to reframe expertise not as something held by institutions, but as something lived, embodied, and shared.