(Un)twisted: talking back to media representations of eating disorders

Holmes, Su

doi:10.1080/09589236.2016.1181539

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“…In recovery, participants may also become trapped in between normal and abnormal, a state mediated by others' perspectives on both their corporeal presentations and their behaviours around food in relation to social norms. This is compounded by a significantly lacking consensus on what recovery means (Bardone-Cone et al, 2010) that can result in rather participants' subordination to the particular perspectives on recovery espoused by clinicians, loved ones, and people in the general public-which may or may not conflict (Holmes, 2018;Noordenbos, 2011a,b). On the other hand, the consensus itself may operate as another kind of regulatory ideal.…”

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“…People with eating disorders do not recover without knowledge of what recovery is "supposed" to be (Conti, 2018;Holmes, 2018). Indeed, they may articulate their subjectivities in relation to clinical and other discourses about eating disorders, recovery, and health in ways that materially impact their engagement-or nonengagement-with eating disorder treatment (Shohet, 2007(Shohet, , 2018.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Elsewhere, critical researchers have commented on how people negotiate their subjectivities in and/or outside of clinical and popular discourses on both eating disorders and recovery (e.g. Churruca, 2020;Holmes, 2018;Malson, 1998;Saukko, 2008;Shohet, 2007Shohet, , 2018. For instance, Malson (1998) remarked on the "discursive struggle over interpretations of 'self' and 'anorexia'" (p. 144) in an analysis of the accounts of women diagnosed or selfdiagnosed with anorexia.…”

Section: The Language Of Recoverymentioning

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Recovering Uncertainty: Exploring Eating Disorder Recovery in Context

LaMarre

Rice

2021

Cult Med Psychiatry

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Attending to the shades of grey in eating disorder recovery may help to illuminate possibilities for navigating recoveries in their full complexity and diversity. There is a need for more complexity and flexibility in understandings of the timelines, processes, endpoints, and versions of eating disorder recoveries. In this article, we explore eating disorder recovery as a dynamic, intercorporeal, and non-linear process. Drawing on interviews with 20 people doing significantly better than they were during a time of acute distress around food and body, we articulate "recoveries" in relation to four themes: Fuzzy Logics of Time, Not Only Recovered, Recovery is Not All Sunshine and Rainbows, and The Life of Recovery. These themes speak to the ways in which participants struggled to articulate the temporalities of their recoveries, situated recovery as one among many events and processes that shaped their being in the world, resisted "too perfect" articulations of recovery journeys/ endpoints, and described preferredversions of and open-ended guidelines for recovery. We argue that eating disorder recoveries are as complicated and messy as lives themselves and are equally 1 Research carried out while Andrea LaMarre was affiliated with the

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Recovering Uncertainty: Exploring Eating Disorder Recovery in Context

LaMarre

Rice

2021

Cult Med Psychiatry

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“…While participants noted that they were not completely immune to the negative impacts of these representations, this critique challenges long-standing discourses concerning female audiences of media content as passive and lacking in critical understanding (see also Holmes, 2018). Participants' also represent a distinction between content creators and content absorbers and the intersection between these two positions as an Instagram users.…”

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“If I Unfollow Them, It's Not a Dig at Them”: A Narrative Analysis of Instagram Use in Eating Disorder Recovery

Nikolova

LaMarre

2023

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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Engaging with the encounters and interactions people have on social media opens the opportunity to think differently about eating disorder (ED) recoveries. We used narrative thematic analysis to explore the experiences of eight participants who regularly use Instagram and who are in recovery from EDs. Our analyses illustrate how participants engaged with Instagram in an active and agentic way, navigating discourses about EDs including who is impacted by EDs and who has access to ED recovery. Participants’ stories illustrate how engaging with Instagram in recovery sometimes meant disengaging from content that was not helpful in their lives and recoveries. They discussed the agency of algorithms and how unexpected content could derail them from using Instagram for connection and community. Participants’ stories also demonstrate how healthist discourses infuse social media content ostensibly about recovery in a way that requires the user to be active in moderating the content they engage with. Grounding our conclusions in work on healthism and biopedagogies, we encourage a systemic approach that focuses on what shifts might be made to reduce the need for people in recovery to be hypervigilant about the content they consume in recovery.

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“…There is also an ethnographic critique that focuses on how gendering of mimetic forces has created a “perceived confluence between eating disorders […], mediated images and highly ‘susceptible’ female audiences” (Holmes 2016 :1). Sociologist Abigail Bray argues that EDs are commonly framed as something akin to reading disorders , whereby young women’s alleged inability of applying a critical approach in their consumption of media images and resisting destructive influences is seen as being at the root of the problem.…”

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René Girard and the Mimetic Nature of Eating Disorders

Strand

2018

Cult Med Psychiatry

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French historian and literary critic René Girard (1923–2015), most widely known for the concepts of mimetic desire and scapegoating, also engaged in the discussion of the surge of eating disorders in his 1996 essay Eating Disorders and Mimetic Desire. This article explores Girard’s ideas on the mimetic nature and origin of eating disorders from a clinical psychiatric perspective and contextualizes them within the field of eating disorders research as well as in relation to broader psychological, sociological and anthropological models of social comparison and non-consumption. Three main themes in Girard’s thinking on the topic of eating disorders are identified and explored: the ‘end of prohibitions’ as a driving force in the emergence of eating disorders, eating disorders as a phenomenon specific to modernity, and the significance of ‘conspicuous non-consumption’ in the emergence of eating disorders.

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(Un)twisted: talking back to media representations of eating disorders

Cited by 12 publications

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Recovering Uncertainty: Exploring Eating Disorder Recovery in Context

Recovering Uncertainty: Exploring Eating Disorder Recovery in Context

“If I Unfollow Them, It's Not a Dig at Them”: A Narrative Analysis of Instagram Use in Eating Disorder Recovery

René Girard and the Mimetic Nature of Eating Disorders

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