On AlterNet: perfectionism
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "perfectionism"
Tom Jacobs, Miller-McCune.com. May 21, 2009.
Perfectionism, as a way of life, tends to be self-defeating. New research suggests it may also be deadly.
Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet. April 18, 2007.
Thinness and beauty are prerequisites for perfection, which to today's young women appears to be the only road to happiness. Under that logic, women's bodies have become places where that drive for perfection -- however self-destructive -- gets played out.
