Just looking at Katie Roskova, you'd think she had it all: she was pretty, popular, an A-student at an exclusive private school, and on her way to becoming a champion figure skater. But there was another Katie, the one she hid from the world, who was having trouble dealing with the mounting pressures of her young life. And it was this Katie who, with no other means of expression available to her, reacted to her overbearing mother, her absent father, her unforgiving schedule, and her oblivious classmates by turning her self-doubt into self-hatred. And into self-mutilation. In his previous novel, The Best Little Girl in the World, Steven Levenkron brought insight, expertise, and sensitivity to the painful subject of anorexia nervosa. Now he applies these same talents to demystifying a condition that is just as heartbreaking, and becoming more common everyday. Through his depiction of Katie's self-mutilating behavior, she is called "a cutter" by her peers, and her triumphant road to recovery, he offers a compelling profile of a young girl in trouble, and much-needed hope to the growing numbers who suffer from this shocking syndrome.

The Luckiest Girl in the World : A Young Skater Battles Her Self-Destructive Impulses

Literature & Fiction

Levenkron, Steven

Contemporary

Penguin Publishing Group

This story is based on the theme of anorexia. To her father, Francesca is "the best little girl in the world", but at her ballet class she realizes she is "fat". With this realization, fat Francesca has to die, and slim Kessa takes her place. Help arrives in the shape of Sandy Sherman, a doctor.

The Best Little Girl in the World

Teen & Young Adult

Puffin Books

A psychotherapist, the author of Treating and Overcoming Anorexia Nervosa, analyzes the phenomenon of self-mutilation and its relationship to female anger, a fear of people, and an inability to form relationships based on mutual trust.

Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Tracing the origins and causes of this terrible disease, the author shows how an innocent desire to lose a few pounds can manifest in lifethreatening symptoms, discussing the social and pysiological forces that shape the illness.

Anatomy of Anorexia

From the psychotherapist who offered groundbreaking work on self-mutilation, an examination of the psychology of victims of sexual abuse. Acclaimed psychotherapist Steven Levenkron's Stolen Tomorrows is a breakthrough book that will encourage the 30 percent of women who have been abused to think about, talk about, and seek help for what has been their secret shame. It illustrates the emotional and psychological devastation inflicted on young girls when they experience childhood sexual abuse, exploring varied situations and settings in which this abuse takes place, focusing on the child's experiences at the time of the assault, as well as the emotional, behavioral, and psychological problems that emerge in adolescence and adulthood. A common theme emerges in therapy sessions: self-hatred, low self-esteem, fearfulness, and an abiding sense of personal debasement. But this book offers an uplifting message. In addition to giving therapists and other helpers an empathic insight, Stolen Tomorrows will enable the survivor to recognize herself in both her personal history and her current struggle to overcome the legacy of abuse.

Stolen Tomorrows: Understanding and Treating Women's Childhood Sexual Abuse

W.W.Norton&Company

A seminal work on treating self-mutilation, revised and updated with illuminating case studies and newly available resources. Nearly a decade ago, Cutting boldly addressed a traumatic psychological disorder now affecting as many as two million Americans and one in fifty adolescents. More than that, it revealed self-mutilation as a comprehensible, treatable disorder, no longer to be evaded by the public and neglected by professionals. Using copious examples from his practice, Steven Levenkron traces the factors that predispose a personality to self-mutilation: genetics, family experience, childhood trauma, and parental behavior. Written for sufferers, parents, friends, and therapists, Cutting explains why the disorder manifests in self-harming behaviors and describes how patients can be helped.

"Invaluable to clinicians, parents, teenagers, and adults who are struggling with anorexia." ―Lynn E. Ponton, M.D.Anatomy of Anorexia is a tremendous tool for families: now more than ever, early diagnosis and treatment, and family participation, are crucial in helping the anorexic. Preeminent therapist Steven Levenkron demystifies this life-threatening disease and shows how the millions of girls and women who are afflicted with anorexia can be helped―and can look forward to rich and productive lives. "The nation’s premier expert in treating anorexia has written the nation’s premier book for parents, relatives, and friends of young women afflicted with this life-threatening disease."―Joseph A. Califano Jr., president of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University and former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare "[Levenkron’s] insights, descriptions of family relationships, and treatment recommendations for therapists create a rich, deep, and most helpful guide for a community of people whose lives are deeply and painfully affected by this persistent illness."―Samuel C. Klagsbrun, M.D.

"The most practical, down to earth, thoughtful, and sensitive book written on women's childhood sexual abuse."―Samuel C. Klagsbrun, MD From the psychotherapist who offered groundbreaking work on self-mutilation (Cutting) comes a landmark examination of the psychology of sexual abuse. Stolen Tomorrows encourages the 20 percent of women who have been abused to think about, talk about, and seek help for what has been their secret shame. In addition to giving therapists and other helpers an empathic insight, Stolen Tomorrows will enable the survivor to recognize herself in both her personal history and her current struggle to overcome the legacy of abuse.

Self-Help

The story of a young anorexic, Kessa, as she is released from the hospital and must confront her innermost fears without reverting to her old patterns of self-denial and rigid control

Kessa

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The Luckiest Girl in the World : A Young Skater Battles Her Self-Destructive Impulses

The Best Little Girl in the World

Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation

Anatomy of Anorexia

Stolen Tomorrows: Understanding and Treating Women's Childhood Sexual Abuse

Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation

Anatomy of Anorexia

Stolen Tomorrows: Understanding and Treating Women's Childhood Sexual Abuse

Kessa

Best Little Girl in the World