ArticleCulture, medicine and psychiatry2022
Material Environments and the Shaping of Anorexic Embodiment: Towards A Materialist Account of Eating Disorders.
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- Moralised Eating and Identity Work in Digital Wellness Culture: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Orthorexia-Related Narratives.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2026Article
- Negative Delusions and the Symbolic Body: A Hypothesis on the Co-Occurrence of Psychosis and Anorexia in Adolescence.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Rethinking crossover and recovery in eating disorders through a dynamic and value-sensitive framework.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2026Article
- A Deleuzian Examination of Anorexia & Recovery: Opening up Possibilities for Conceptualizing Care.Nursing philosophy : an international journal for healthcare professionals · 2026Article
- Troublesome Bodies: How Bodies Come to Matter and Intrude in Eating Disorder Recovery.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2025Article
- The interplay between social media use, poor sleep, and disordered eating: a narrative review.Cogent mental health · 2025Review
- The Sensory Landscape and Embodied Experiences in Anorexia Nervosa Treatment: An Inpatient Sensory Ethnography.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Occupational therapy's role in the exploration of meaning in anorexia.The British journal of occupational therapy · 2022Article
- Storied Bodies and Temporal Lives: A Narrative Inquiry Exploring the Experiences of Young Adults Living with an Eating Disorder.Global qualitative nursing researchArticle
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Abstract
Anorexia nervosa is a paradoxical disorder, regarded across disciplines as a body project and yet also an illness of disembodied subjectivity. This overlooks the role that material environments-including objects and spaces-play in producing embodied experiences of anorexia both within and outside treatment. To address this gap, this paper draws together two ethnographic studies of anorexia to explore the shared themes unearthed by research participants' engagements with objects that move across boundaries between treatment spaces and everyday lives. Demonstrating how the anorexic body is at once both phenomenologically lived and socio-medically constituted, we argue that an attention to materiality is crucial to understanding lived experiences. A materialist account of anorexia extends the literature on treatment resistance in eating disorders and offers a reconceptualisation of 'the body in treatment', showing how objects and spaces shape, maintain, and even 'trigger' anorexia. Therefore, against the background of the high rates of relapse in eating disorders, this analysis calls for consideration of how interventions can better take account of eating disordered embodiment as shaped by material environments.
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