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How to Understand Eating Disorders – An Insider’s Perspective

This American Life editor Susan Burton in conversation with psychologist Danielle Keenan-Miller

62 mins watch time

Posted September 2020

Science

For almost thirty years, This American Life editor Susan Burton hid her obsession with food and the secret life of compulsive eating and starving that dominated her adolescence. The hiding has ended: in conversation with psychologist and author Danielle Keenan-Miller, Susan tells her story, challenges stigmas around binge eating, and discusses how she moved past her shame and learned to tell her secret.