The Queen of Wonderland

A sense of spiritual melancholy in a sensitive individual is often expressed as anorexia nervosa or cutting.

Archive for June, 2008

Understanding the underlying meaning and purpose behind eating disorders and cutting

Posted: Monday, June 9th, 2008 @ 12:23 pm in Understanding | 4 Comments »

This web site gives positive support for understanding the meaning behind compulsive disorders like cutting and eating disorders because this is the only way to cure the destructive aspects of the psychic process without belittling a patient’s quest for understanding.
You can post comments on this web site that express how you feel about things that […]

The Paradox of duality in Anorexia Nervosa

Posted: Sunday, June 8th, 2008 @ 8:43 am in Introduction | 3 Comments »

Our Alice theme character represents a confusing mix of two separate personalities that are separated by a curious looking-glass mystique that exists between consciousness and the unconscious psychic background. The psychic background is where dreams and fantasies originate and take place. Eating disorders also originate in this psychic background owing to a conflict between an […]

Reason for the Wonderland theme for my book project

Posted: Monday, June 2nd, 2008 @ 8:02 am in Introduction | 1 Comment »

This is the reason why I have chosen the Adventure in Wonderland theme to illustrate the nature of anorexia nervosa:
Like the anorexic, Lewis Carroll’s Alice was quite clueless about why she felt compelled to follow the white rabbit down the hole into a maddening underworld adventure. Alice’s story isn’t one of those ancient myths that […]

The Mad Tea Party

Posted: Sunday, June 1st, 2008 @ 5:35 am in Introduction | 2 Comments »

Most of what I have written in the introduction to my yet unpublished book has to do with what is wrong with the theories produced by modern feel-good-psychology on the problem of self-harming behaviour. Anyone who has anything to do with the problem of self-harm can’t help becoming involved in this Mad Tea Party because […]