Reviews for Affect & Attachment in the Family-Based Treatment of Major Psychiatric Disorder

The average rating for Affect & Attachment in the Family-Based Treatment of Major Psychiatric Disorder based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-11-17 00:00:00 Mark Lewis A follow up to her earlier book, A Table in Provence. Unlike that one this ones text is in print, not her handwriting or a font to resemble handwriting but is still illustrated by her. Feasts is much more a travelogue with recipes than Provence and is no better or worse from being so. You could quite easily read it as a book as use it as a cookbook. Neither books have I seen in bookshops and my two were bought in charity shops. Whether they are both out of print I don't know. If so it seems a pity that publishers seem to be interested only in the usual dross of TV inspired celebrity chefs cook books. Vast in size, huge unneccesary photographs sometimes showing the celebrity sweating over a hot stove, and highly overpriced.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-08-10 00:00:00 Robert Rehak This memoir tells the real story of Anne Bolander, who was misdiagnosed as retarded when she was actually deaf. She endures heart-breaking abuse both at a privately-run home and from her birth family. She experiences small kindnesses from her grandmother and from the nuns at another home where she is correctly diagnosed as deaf. But her family continues to treat her as if she's retarded, and she experiences horrific abuse and neglect at their hands. She finally gets a job and makes enough money to get a car and move out on her own, only to be repeatedly taken advantage of by a series of "friends" who use her for her home and her money. Anne is so starved for love and friendship that she loses apartments, cars, and over $80,000 in cash to various "friends" who take advantage of her. By the end of the book, she's still a damaged person, but she makes some real friends, finds a good therapist, and a woman (her co-author) who helps her tell her life story. I've had this book on my "to read" list for a while and put it off because I expected it to be depressing, considering the subject matter. But while this first-person narrative does contain very sad and difficult themes, Anne's voice will pull you along and make you want to know what happens next. If you're anything like me, you'll be holding your breath, waiting for her luck to change and for something good to happen to her. It was hard to put down, and I finished it in 3 days.