Eating Disorders Arena

Under the Skin

A Psychoanalytic Study of Body Modification

• By Alessandra Lemma.

Published February 2010

Under the Skin considers the motivation behind why people pierce, tattoo, cosmetically enhance, or otherwise modify their body, from a psychoanalytic perspective. It discusses how the therapist can understand and help individuals for whom the manipulation of the body is felt to be psychically…
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Critical Feminist Approaches to Eating Dis/Orders

• Edited by Helen Malson, and Maree Burns.

Published May 2009

Over the past decade there have been significant shifts both in feminist approaches to the field of eating disorders and in the ways in which gender, bodies, body weight, body management and food are understood, represented and regulated within the dominant cultural milieus of the early…
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The Invisible Man

A Self-help Guide for Men With Eating Disorders, Compulsive Exercise and Bigorexia

• By John F. Morgan.

Published February 2008

Increasingly boys and men are suffering with eating disorders and related body image problems. Some have full-blown conditions such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating, compulsive exercising or bigorexia. Others are distressed by slightly lesser degrees of disordered eating or over-exercise…
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Overcoming Body Image Disturbance

A Programme for People with Eating Disorders

• By Lorraine Bell, and Jenny Rushforth.

Published February 2008

People with eating disorders often exhibit serious misconceptions about their own body image. Overcoming Body Image Disturbance provides a treatment programme (piloted by the authors) for people with eating disorders who have a negative body image. The manual offers advice for therapists,…
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Consumer Culture, Identity and Well-Being

The Search for the 'Good Life' and the 'Body Perfect'

• By Helga Dittmar.
• Series Edited by Professor Rupert Brown.

Published August 2007

Advertising, materialism and consumption are central aspects of contemporary Western culture. We are bombarded with idealised images of the perfect body, desirable consumer goods, and affluent lifestyles, yet psychology is only just beginning to take account of the profound influence these consumer…
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Body Image

Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men, Women and Children

• By Sarah Grogan.

Published July 2007

Sarah Grogan provides a comprehensive overview of the subject of body image, pulling together diverse research from the fields of psychology, sociology, media, and gender studies in men, women, and children. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the significant…
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Body Work

The Social Construction of Women's Body Image

• By Sylvia K. Blood.

Published July 2005

Are scientific 'facts' about body image enough to define conceptions of normality Reassessing Experimental Psychology from a critical perspective, Sylvia Blood demonstrates how its research into Body Image can be misused and prone to misuse. Classifying women who experience distress and anxiety…
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Beauty and Misogyny

Harmful Cultural Practices in the West

• By Sheila Jeffreys.
• Series Edited by Jane Ussher.

Published June 2005

Should western beauty practices, ranging from lipstick to labiaplasty, be included within the United Nations understandings of harmful traditional/cultural practices? By examining the role of common beauty practices in damaging the health of women, creating sexual difference, and enforcing female…
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Body Shame

Conceptualisation, Research and Treatment

• Edited by Paul Gilbert, and Jeremy Miles.

Published October 2002

Physical appearance plays a powerful role in social relationships. Those who feel shame regarding the way they look, and who think others view their appearance negatively, can therefore be vulnerable to impoverished social relationships and a range of psychological difficulties. However, there are…
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Eating Disorders and Cultures in Transition

• Edited by Mervat Nasser, Melanie Katzman and Richard Gordon.

Published September 2002

Eating disorders: do they mark cultural transition?Eating disorders that were once viewed as exclusive to specific class and ethnic boundaries in western culture are now spreading worldwide. This issue is fully discussed in this groundbreaking volume.Eating Disorders and Cultures in Transition is…
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