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Coping With Eating Disorders (continued from page 7)

improve her self-concept, to see and appreciate other things about herself besides her body.

3) Sexuality-Helping the woman discover and accept her own sexuality, freeing her from her dependence on males to define and affirm it. Working on assertiveness and the ability to relate to males without losing one's identity.

4) Food/behavior awareness-Helping the woman discover how she uses food, what the eating, bingeing and purging mean to her and do for her.

5) Teaching alternative coping mechanisms--Since eating (or not eating) has become her way to deal with everything from feelings to difficult situations to free time, teaching her alternative ways to deal with problems.

6) Delaying gratification-Teaching the woman that many times her problems stem from acting immediately, impulsively, from not being able to tolerate waiting for anything. Teaching her how to wait for a feeling to be resolved, or wait for something she wants.

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This is not to say that these are the only problems, anorexics and bulimics experience. There are many more and each woman is an individual. But these are common themes I see over and over in the women I treat.

One last word on the choice of therapist. I don't think the sex of the therapist matters, although this may sound surprising in light of my rather feminist perspective. Certainly when a woman is struggling to be whole and not dependent on a man's view of who she should be and what her body should look like, it makes sense to work with a female therapist. But this does not rule out sensitive and non-chauvinistic males as possible therapists. They cannot be the role models many women seek when they begin the thera-

peutic journey, but if they are non-manipulative and truly supportive of women achieving their in dependence, they can provide for many clients their very first experience of being in a relationship with a man and being her own person. This is a powerful experience and many females are employing the help of male co-therapists at some point in treatmen specifically for this purpose. Still, many women say they prefer a female therapist to work on the difficul issues of body acceptance and sexuality. Younger girls especially, I think, need strong, healthy role models and do better to choose a woman therapist.

As with most disorders, people ask "Does medica tion help?" Strictly speaking it does not. That is there is no medication which has been shown to be ef fective for treatment of anorexia nervosa itself of bulimia itself. However, occasionally the eating disorder might be secondary to another psychologica problem, for example profound depression, or thought disorder, in which case medication can help the primary problem and thus indirectly help the eating disorders, por fo

The point of this article has been to let womer. know that eating disorders, while agonizing and discouraging, can be helped. Prognosis is good to ex cellent with effort and a competent therapist. Eating disorders seem to affect many of us to differen degrees, and as Kim Chernin suggested in her book Obsession: The Tyranny of Slenderness, "A woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life. Through her concern with her body, she is expressing a serious concern about the state of her soul."

Cynthia Griggins is a counsellor at the Free Clinic with a special interest in women and eating disorders.

Clara Fraser Wins in Seattle (continued from page 4)

tant city attorney for City Light, also accused Fraser of using the 1974 City Light strike (1400 employees walked out) and the women's trainee program as political forums. She also charged Fraser with income tax evasion.

In June 1980, Hearing Examiner Pasette agreed that City Light had illegally fired Fraser for her socialist feminist politics. She ordered Fraser's reinstatement at City Light and awarded her $58,101 in damages and back pay and $300 for embarrassment, humiliation and indignity. But a 2-1 vote of the hearing panel in July 1980 overturned Pasette's decision, and Fraser appealed to the King County Superior Court.

When the adverse 2-1 panel decision was issued in August 1980, blocking Fraser from her long-awaited return to City Light, City Attorney Doug Jewett told the Human Rights Department to discontinue representing Fraser. Meanwhile, he provided full legal support to City Light to fight her appeal and issued an order that made it impossible for Fraser to be hired by another department of the city. Jewett also stipulated that Fraser "must retain her own counsel to challenge the city process." However, $250,000 in taxpayer dollars were allocated to defending City Light..

Fraser's appeal was heard August 9, 1982. For three weeks preceding the hearing, Judge Goodloe read 10,000 pages of transcripts, documents, briefs and motions representing every twist and turn of the case since Fraser first filed her complaint with the Human Rights Department in August 1974. At the appeal trial, Assistant City Attorney Rod Kaseguma

accused Fraser of a "mad lust for power" and ar "obsession for the group as opposed to the in dividual." He alleged that if Fraser's politics were taken to their logical conclusion, workers' overthrow of management would be protected conduct!

After listening to five hours of oral argument Goodloe reinstated Pasette's entire decision, anc ordered Fraser reinstated at City Light. He advisec management of its responsibility to treat Fraser with decency. He added two years of back pay and damages to Pasette's award, and on February 3, 1983 signed an order awarding her $52,390 in attorney fees and court costs.

In his unequivocal decision, Goodloe described the seven years of litigation as "outrageous," especially since the whole case could have been settled in 1979 for a "paltry $30,000." Fraser finally returned to work November 17, 1982, with a back pay award that totalled $84,000 after taxes, social security and retire. ment were deducted.

Throughout the administrative hearing and the ap peal trial, Assistant City Attorneys Cloud and Kaseguma tried to detract from the real issues of the case-free speech, and sex and political discrimina tion by turning Fraser, the victim, into the wrongdoer. The city's argument “was a striking confirmation of Fraser's charges," said her attorney during closing arguments. "[They] promulgated management's unrestricted right to run the shop, even in violation of the law and Fraser's rights. This illuminated and continued the very sex and politica!

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