The Psychiatry, Politics and Cultural Representations of Disordered Eating Fixsen, Alison. creator author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut SpringerLink (Online service) text sz 2024 1st ed. 2024. monographic eng

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access XII, 319 p. online resource. This book draws on original research to critically examine the social and industrial construction of eating disorders and disordered eating, in an analysis that encompasses psychiatry and health, cultural representations, and the politics of eating disorders. Centrally, it examines the extent to which eating disorders are not ‘made’ by individuals, but rather constructed by groups who claim investment, experience, and expertise in the diagnosis, labeling, treatment, and management of disordered eating. It demonstrates the impacts of biomedical, psychiatric, legal, pharmaceutical, technical and consumer groups, as well as that of the fast-food, fashion, media and social media industries. In doing so, it reveals how they shape the ways that eating disorders are perceived, spoken of, written about, and managed within institutions and wider society. It will appeal to students and scholars of mental health, critical psychology, medical sociology and anthropology and gender studies, and others interested in our future health. Alison Fixsen is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology in the School of Social Sciences, University of Westminster, UK. Alison has had decades of experience in the food, health, and higher education sector, including previous work managing a vegetarian wholefood business and as a complementary therapist before completing her Professional Doctorate in Higher Education Practice. Since 2012, Dr Fixsen has authored over 34 journal papers and book chapters on a wide range of issues relating to the critical mental health and gender studies, neoliberalism and self-care, eating disorders, prescription drug use and critical approaches to social prescribing. . Chapter 1: How We Became Disordered Eaters -- Chapter 2: Bodies beyond Conformity -- Chapter 3: Anorexia Nervosa: the Making of the First Eating Disorder -- Chapter 4: ED diagnosis and Therapeutic Frameworks -- Chapter 5: disordered eating, food landscapes and public health -- Chapter 6: Biopolitics of Weight and Disordered Eating -- Chapter 7: Disordered Eating and the media industry -- Chapter 8: Disordered Eating in the virtual world -- Chapter 9: Orthorexia Nervosa: Eating Disorder for A Pro-Health Era -- Chapter 10: cultural & technological transformations. by Alison Fixsen. Mental health Social medicine Critical psychology Medical anthropology Counseling Clinical health psychology Mental Health Medical Sociology Critical Psychology Medical Anthropology Counseling Psychology Health Psychology RA790-790.95 9783031703188 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70318-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70318-8 241217 20251030114621.0 978-3-031-70318-8