scholarly journals Collage Inquiry: Creative and Particular Applications

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 245-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna Davis
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
Self Study ◽  
History Of ◽  
Media Imagery ◽  
Insight Into

Collage from "found" visual imagery is widely employed as an accessible medium for expression and illustration in educational, therapeutic, and recreational contexts. Given the history of collage as a strategy of criticism and subversion in the fine arts, visual researchers seek to develop a methodology of collage as a means to knowledge, affording insight into the negotiation and embodiment of media imagery in subjective experience. Highly relevant issues of body image and eating disorders are addressed through the presentation and analysis of a self-study series of collages and life writings. The resulting intuitive "figures" of anorexia demonstrate the creative potential of collage to reconfigure experience excluded from standard texts, and suggest alternative interpretations of both suffering and healing on an individual and cultural level.

Anorexia Nervosa and Depression in a Woman Blind since the Age of Nine Months

1993 ◽  
Vol 38 (7) ◽  
pp. 469-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clifford W. Sharp
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Major Depression ◽  
Food Intake ◽  
Older Women ◽  
The Body ◽  
Atypical Presentation ◽  
History Of

A woman aged 58 who has been blind since the age of nine months presented with major depression and a 40 year history of an eating disorder characterized by a restriction of food intake and body disparagement. The case is additional evidence that a specifically visual body image is not essential for the development of anorexia nervosa and supports the view that the concept of body image is unnecessary and unproductive in eating disorders. Greater emphasis should be placed on attitudes and feelings toward the body, and the possibility of an eating disorder should be considered in cases of older women with an atypical presentation.

A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF EATING DISORDERS AMONG COLLEGE WOMEN

1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHARLENE HESSE-BIBER ◽  
MARGARET MARINO ◽  
DIANE WATTS-ROY
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Eating Disordered ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
College Population ◽  
History Of ◽  
Food Body ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

This study provides insight into factors that determine whether women in the college population who exhibit eating-disordered behavior during their college years recover during their postcollege years. The study assessed changes in the eating patterns of 21 women across a six-year time period, from sophomore year in college to two years postcollege. Eleven of the women get better during their postcollege year, whereas 10 of the women continue to struggle with disordered eating. The major differences between the two groups revolve around the relationship between autonomy and relation. Women who get better negotiate the tension between autonomy and relatedness and are more likely to have higher selfesteem based on a more positive self-concept; this, in turn, leads to healthier relationships with food and body image. Two factors that appear to influence this negotiation include (I) one's history of chronic physical or sexual abuse and (2) the quality of familial messages about food, body image, relationship, and autonomy.

scholarly journals Aspects Related to Body Image and Eating Behaviors in Healthy Brazilian Undergraduate Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Armando Afonso Jr ◽  
Thales Ferro ◽  
Luis Anunciação ◽  
J. Landeira-Fernandez
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Body Dissatisfaction ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
Eating Attitudes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Brazilian Students ◽  
Selection Operator ◽  
Eat 26

The discrepancy between one’s actual body and the ideal body, especially among young adults, can lead to body dissatisfaction in both men and women, which is commonly accepted to be central to eating disorders. We explored aspects of body image and eating disorders in healthy Brazilian students (n = 219) using two standardized measures (Body Shape Questionnaire [BSQ-34] and Eating Attitudes Test [EAT-26]) and assessing height, weight, Body Mass Index (BMI), and the history of physical activity. We also analyzed the ability of one measure to predict another. Linear multiple regression was used to verify which variables best predicted the scale outcomes. The Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) was used for variable selection. The results suggested that women have a greater risk of body dissatisfaction and eating disorders. Both instruments had variables that significantly predicted each other’s results, whereas BMI was only associated with BSQ-34 scores. These findings broaden our understanding of eating disorders and body image.

Life as a Male 'Anorexic'

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murray Drummond
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Bulimia Nervosa ◽  
Eating Disordered ◽  
The Social ◽  
Body Image Concerns ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into

Information surrounding male anorexia and bulimia nervosa is limited. Currently, health promoters and practitioners in this field have little to guide them apart from the data that informs female anorexia and bulimia nervosa. This paper is based on in-depth interviews with past and present eating disordered men. Using life historical accounts, the men provide rich descriptive information to document their plight with body image concerns and eating disorders. The paper provides insight into the lives of male anorexia and bulimia nervosa sufferers. Further it attempts to draw on their perceptions of what it is like being a male with a disorder that is often perceived as being a female phenomenon. The paper also explores the issues surrounding men and body image in contemporary Western culture. It highlights some of the significant issues confronting men and boys in relation to the social construction of masculinity and the links with body image concerns and eating disorders. Although the paper is not grounded in practitioner based information, it does seek to arouse awareness in those working in this emerging field of study.

Researcher and Trainee Clinical Psychologist, 4 years’ experience, UK

2020 ◽  
pp. 195-200
Author(s):  
Markus Reuber ◽  
Gregg H. Rawlings ◽  
Steven C. Schachter
Keyword(s):  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Epileptic Seizures ◽  
Clinical Psychologist ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Objective Tests ◽  
Personal Accounts ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter studies the experience of a researcher and trainee Clinical Psychologist who has been privileged enough to listen to individuals all around the world who have been given the diagnostic label of Non-Epileptic Seizures (NES). The Psychologist’s purpose has been to gain a deeper understanding of what it is like to live with the condition and explore how individuals and their families make sense of it. This work has focused not only on what individuals experience during non-epileptic events but also on how the condition has impacted all areas of their life and general being. Indeed, individuals’ personal accounts of their condition provide rich and unequalled insight into the subjective experience. Throughout the history of medicine, narratives of illness have been central to the diagnostic and treatment process. However, in recent years, there has been a change in healthcare culture, with providers and patients both seeming to prioritize “objective,” biomedical approaches to understanding illness. This has meant that understanding gained from the “subjective” narrative can at times become discounted, belittled, and even ignored. Excluding the voice of any individual in their care can be problematic, but even more so in the case of non-epileptic seizures whereby “objective” tests cannot easily explain their experiences.

From Body Image to Emotional Bodily Experience in Eating Disorders

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Isabel Gaete ◽  
Thomas Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Lived Body ◽  
Adaptive Responses ◽  
Bodily Experience ◽  
Shed Light

This paper is a critical analysis and overview of body image conceptualization and its scope and limits within the field of eating disorders (eds) up to the present day. In addition, a concept ofemotional bodily experienceis advanced in an attempt to shift towards a more comprehensive and multidimensional perspective for thelived bodyof these patients. It mainly considers contributions from phenomenology, embodiment theories and a review of the empirical findings that shed light on the emotional bodily experience in eating disorders. It proposes an ‘embodied defense’ that leads patients to experiencing their own bodies as objects. This proposal highlights the need for new psychotherapeutic tools in the treatment ofeds that take into account the bodily resonance of emotions and their use for improving adaptive responses to the environment: it calls for helping patients to recover the subjective experience of their bodies.

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