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Childhood trauma and anorexia nervosa: from body image to embodiment

Malecki, Jennifer, Rhodes, Paul, Ussher, Jane·2018·Health Care for Women International

Abstract

Contemporary understandings of anorexia nervosa are framed by the body-image paradigm. The body-image framework considers that women's bodily experiences are reflected through distorted mental images of their bodies or disordered thinking and behavior around food and eating. Body image has come to symbolize all that can go wrong with women's relationships with their bodies, food, and eating. The problem with this approach is its failure to consider the experience of women who have survived childhood abuse. Women's bodily disturbances are not easily discernible through objective measures because they lie within the inner subjective realm of the embodied 'self' and embodied emotional experience. Consideration of the different ways that women inhabit their bodies informs this paper's examination of the conceptual framework of embodiment as an alternative to the body-image paradigm.

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Authors
Malecki, J., Rhodes, P., & Ussher, J.
Affiliations
The University of Sydney (AU)
Corresponding author
Malecki, Jennifer
Venue
Health Care for Women International
Published
2018-08-03
Volume
39
Issue
8
Pages
936-951
ISSN
  • 0739-9332 (ISSN-L)
  • 1096-4665
OpenAlex
W2889062830
Cited by
36
References
84
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 3
FWCI
3.24
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Health Care For Women International (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
Keywords
childhood trauma, anorexia nervosa, body image, embodiment, childhood abuse, eating disorders, embodiment of emotion, disordered eating

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