Intelligence Squared | Anorexia and Finding the Will to Live - Hadley Freeman & Bari Weiss | Intelligence Squared @Intelligence-Squared | Uploaded 1 year ago | Updated 22 hours ago
Shortly after her fourteenth birthday, Hadley Freeman stopped eating. From the age of fourteen to seventeen, she lived in various psychiatric wards with a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa.
Now, decades later, the award-winning Sunday Times columnist has written a book, Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia, about her struggles with mental health and the insights she has gained. And in April 2023 she came to Intelligence Squared to address the complexities and misunderstandings surrounding anorexia. As she argued, it isn’t really about the food. It’s about the fear of becoming a woman; it’s about the belief that you are supposed to be perfect; and it’s about creating a new, smaller world which has one simple rule: don’t eat.
In conversation with journalist and author Bari Weiss, Freedman shared her message that the present doesn’t have to be a life sentence and that ultimately life can be enjoyed.
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Shortly after her fourteenth birthday, Hadley Freeman stopped eating. From the age of fourteen to seventeen, she lived in various psychiatric wards with a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa.
Now, decades later, the award-winning Sunday Times columnist has written a book, Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia, about her struggles with mental health and the insights she has gained. And in April 2023 she came to Intelligence Squared to address the complexities and misunderstandings surrounding anorexia. As she argued, it isn’t really about the food. It’s about the fear of becoming a woman; it’s about the belief that you are supposed to be perfect; and it’s about creating a new, smaller world which has one simple rule: don’t eat.
In conversation with journalist and author Bari Weiss, Freedman shared her message that the present doesn’t have to be a life sentence and that ultimately life can be enjoyed.
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![What Makes Emily Brontë A Better Author Than Jane Austen - Kate Mosse [2014] | Intelligence Squared](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/G4kNj671exs/hqdefault.jpg "What Makes Emily Brontë A Better Author Than Jane Austen - Kate Mosse [2014] | Intelligence Squared
In this clip from our 2014 session ‘Jane Austen vs Emily Brontë: The Queens of English Literature Debate’, author Kate Mosse takes the stage at Intelligence Squared to bring forward her points on why the world renowned writer Emily Brontë, is a better novelist than Jane Austen. Here she provides her points supported by live readings of some of their most classic scenes, supported by esteemed actor Dominic West. Who is better? Emily Brontë or Jane Austen? Let us know your opinions in the comment section below!
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