This Hunger Artist has nothing to do with the artistry of not-eating — after all, there is no such thing. It’s concerned with the complex art and science involved in learning to listen, and respond, to your hungers again after an eating disorder has made you forget how. This site collects together all my work…

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My latest paper in the Journal of Eating Disorders: ‘Literary reading and eating disorders: Survey evidence of therapeutic help and harm’ (full open-access version here). And in Medical Humanities, ‘Fiction-reading for good or ill: Eating disorders, interpretation, and the case for creative bibliotherapy research’ (abstract here). Or read recent short pieces I’ve written on the…

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Since 2009, when the weight-restoration phase of my recovery from anorexia was complete, but psychologically there was a lot left to do, I have written a blog about eating disorders—also called A Hunger Artist—for the US website Psychology Today. In the beginning, writing the blog was a personally therapeutic thing for me to do: it…

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