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“All Real Living Is Meeting”: Brent Robbins on Love, Death, and the Possibilities of Psychology

Mad in America

After grad school, I was teaching at Daemen College when my mother had a mental health crisis and was hospitalized. But we know from research that one of the strongest drivers of eating disorders is the thin ideal a cultural standard that equates female attractiveness with thinness. Then it became personal.