Anorexias Fallen Angel

This book shows Peggy Claude Pierre's lack of knowledge concerning eating disorders. This book is a must read for anyone interested in one Of Peggy Claude-Pierre's books. I am so glad this book was written because Peggy is very convincing. But it's not realistic to work with clients 24 hrs a day for a year. If other eating disorder specialists spent that much time on thier clients they'd have similiar success as Peggy.

This well researched book tells the tragic story of how well-intentioned people tried to help people suffering from a difficult illness, but hurt many people along the way. Barbara McLintock chronicles the history of the Montreux Clinic from the point when its founder, Peggy Claude-Pierre, started helping her own daughters deal with their eating problems to the point when the clinic surrendered its license. The author never makes her topic too over-emotional or turns it into a clinical case. She clearly explains the struggles that sufferers of anorexia and their families went through before and during their stay at the Montreaux clinic. You feel a great deal of sympathy for the patients and their families. It would have been easy for McLintock to paint Peggy Claude-Pierre as a villian. However, McLintock remains objective and honest with her entire subject matter and isn't afraid of including views of people who support the clinic's actions. This is a definite read for anyone wishing to understand how something that sounded so good could go so wrong.

Finally, someone has finally told the truth. This book has been painstakenly researched and written with compassion for the many who were duped by promises which were not and could not be kept. Thankfully, someone took the time and enegry to write this account.

Brilliant and accurate account of what went on at the Montreux Clinic. McLintock tells it as it was.. Children being held against their will in a non-medical facility. Non-profit Society funds being used to pay a private company owned by Peggy-Claude-Pierre and her husband David Harris. Very sick children and young adults being cared for by other patients and recruited coffee shop staff from about town in Victoria British Columbia. Secrecy and isolation. This book should be a training manual for emerging countries setting up their human rights code. A very compelling book. It displays Montreux and its owners as who they really are, a fiddle player and a retired waitress.. How they got their recognition and publicity to launch their international scam is cleanly laid out in this book.. I could not give it a higher recommendation.. Anyone who has thought of sending their loved one(s) to a private treatment facility of any type must read Anorexia's Fallen Angel...

This book describes the uncritical acceptance by the leading US media of someone without even a basic undergraduate university degree and their elevatation of her to mythical stature, without questionning her methods or success rate. Sadly, the addage if it is too good to be true, it probably is applies. The most compeling part of the book is not the high flying TV personalities like Barbara Walters, Maury and Operah but the heart wrenching stories of the young women who went for a $1000/day therapy at Claude-Pierre's Montreux Clinic. Particularly disturbing is Peggy Claude-Pierre's misdiagnosis and mistreatment of a three year old child. This is a great book and deserves a read... It is only fitting that the author dedicated the book to the young women who died of their eating desorders, despite be treated by a media "angel".