For anyone who is familiar with the Montreux clinic this book proves to be a very interesting read. As an anorexic I remember seeing Peggy-Claude Pierre, (Clinic's director), on various television programs.(Some of which included: dateline, 20/20, Oprah, Maury Povich, Good Morning America). She was said to be "an angel", trying to save children that were otherwise doomed to certain death. In 1997 struggling in the hospital I remember longing to be at her clinic. My doctor doubted that she was as great as she was made out to be, but I wrote it off as jealousy. Anyone who is familiar with eating disorders know that the causes are vast and often complex.
This book tells about how she started off with very good intentions, but somehow became too money hungry along the way. She did not have the least amount of knowledge as to how to run a clinic of this nature, nor did she bother to provide adequate staff. The patients, weakened and vulnerable, were in so many ways as much victims to her, as they were to their eating disorders.
This novel proves that there is no easy cure.
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Lucinda Stern
Though provoking counter-point to 'The Secret Language of Eating Disorders'.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 14, 2017Verified Purchase
