Images of Anorexia and Lives Restored

The Artist:
Susanna is twenty-four years old and she has been suffering from eating disorders since she was eight. After ten years in and out of various treatment programs, she entered Montreux. Since successfully completing the program four years ago, Susanna has graduated from art school with honors. She has just had her first art show in a major gallery.

In this picture, the victim is in a trance where it is forever night and she is pouring out her life's blood. She is not sure if she is fat or thin; part of her body describes fat and other parts as bones.

The Artist:
Madeline had been sick for five years and had spent the last two years in a psychiatric hospital before she entered Montreux. She is now twenty years old and is working as a careworker at the Montreux Clinic.

In her painting, this victim sees herself paralyzed in the living of life -- her feet can know no direction; they are locked in place. Her head is a hypodermic needle injecting itself into a black well of negativity--a well of no return.

The Artist:
Amy became sick when she was eight years old. After fourteen years in and out of fifty different hospitals, doctors had to revive her to get her well enough to make the trip to Montreux. Now twenty-two years old, she is in the midst of her treatment and she is flourishing.

This painting depicts a very desperate case. This patient is convinced she is in the fires of "hell" being punished for all the bad things she has supposedly done. When asked what these bad deeds were, she didn't know. Of course, she is guilty of nothing.

The Artist:
Amber entered Montreux at age eighteen after working with several different therapists. She is now twenty-three and has been free of her eating disorders for three-and- a-half years. She is currently at University studying Modern Art and Design.

In this drawing, the victim describes herself in black worthlessness, primarily bad, ashamed, yet confused because she feels she has a good heart. It is significant that the heart is deep and out of view of the common perception, therefore not easily available to be helped.


	The Artist: Susanna is twenty-four years old and she has been suffering from eating disorders since she was eight. After ten years in and out of various treatment programs, she entered Montreux. Since successfully completing the program four years ago, Susanna has graduated from art school with honors. She has just had her first art show in a major gallery. In this picture, the victim is in a trance where it is forever night and she is pouring out her life's blood. She is not sure if she is fat or thin; part of her body describes fat and other parts as bones.
	The Artist: Madeline had been sick for five years and had spent the last two years in a psychiatric hospital before she entered Montreux. She is now twenty years old and is working as a careworker at the Montreux Clinic. In her painting, this victim sees herself paralyzed in the living of life -- her feet can know no direction; they are locked in place. Her head is a hypodermic needle injecting itself into a black well of negativity--a well of no return.
	The Artist: Amy became sick when she was eight years old. After fourteen years in and out of fifty different hospitals, doctors had to revive her to get her well enough to make the trip to Montreux. Now twenty-two years old, she is in the midst of her treatment and she is flourishing. This painting depicts a very desperate case. This patient is convinced she is in the fires of "hell" being punished for all the bad things she has supposedly done. When asked what these bad deeds were, she didn't know. Of course, she is guilty of nothing.
	The Artist: Amber entered Montreux at age eighteen after working with several different therapists. She is now twenty-three and has been free of her eating disorders for three-and- a-half years. She is currently at University studying Modern Art and Design. In this drawing, the victim describes herself in black worthlessness, primarily bad, ashamed, yet confused because she feels she has a good heart. It is significant that the heart is deep and out of view of the common perception, therefore not easily available to be helped.