Body Image and Eating Disorders: An Anthropological and Psychological Overview

ISBN-13: 9781009078030 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 200 str.

Floriana Irtelli

Opis

A contemporary, interdisciplinary work that examines some of the most recent eating disorders and body image disorders of Western cultures.

Recenzje

'This book provides nuanced perspectives as the authors interweave their personal and clinical experiences of eating disorders and body image issues with evidence-based research into a text for advanced readers … Recommended.' C. Hauff, Choice

Spis treści

Part I. Contemporary Perspectives in Anthropology, Philosophy, and Psychology on the Human Body: An Introductory Overview: 1. The conception of the human body: An evolutionary study from ancient times to the hypermodern era; Part II. Brain Without Body, Body Without Brain, and Contemporary Body Image Disorders: 2. Body schema, body image, and hypermodern alterations; 3. Alexithymia and somatizations; 4. The myth of the perfect body image, body dysmorphic disorder, and bigorexia; 5. The complex relationship between the mind, the body, and the contemporary environment; Part III. A Specific Analysis: The Hypermodern Contradictory Relationship With Food: 6. Contemporary social trends regarding food: paradoxes and food tribes; 7. Orthorexia; 8. Contemporary perspectives on eating disorders; 9. Nervous bulimia and binge eating disorder: A contemporary overview; 10. Contemporary on obesity; Part IV. Which Possible Horizons? Some Final Considerations: 11. Body image, narcissims, and depression; 12. The global process of psycho-bodily development.