SynthesisFrontiers in psychiatry2022
'In an otherwise limitless world, I was sure of my limit.'
Synthesis in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
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21 citing papers in PubMed.
- Understanding experiences of psychedelic treatments for eating disorders: a meta-synthesis of qualitative studies.BMC medicine · 2026Review
- Pathways to improved treatment of anorexia nervosa: a need for reconceptualization.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Anorexia nervosa: 150 years of critical theory.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Review
- Learning From Those Who Have Lived: A Scoping Review Exploring the Involvement of Lived Experience Co-Design in Eating Disorder Research Methodologies.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Examining the biological causes of eating disorders to inform treatment strategies.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2025Review
- Emotion dysregulation and eating disorder symptoms: a network analysis in college students with subclinical eating disorders.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- A call for a trauma-informed approach during compulsory care for enduring anorexia nervosa with combined PTSD - an autoethnographic perspective.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- An (un)answered cry for help: a qualitative study exploring the subjective meaning of eating disorders in the context of transgenerational trauma.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- A key system response of diametric space as a paradigm for understanding the phenomenology of anorexia nervosa.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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- The Sensory Landscape and Embodied Experiences in Anorexia Nervosa Treatment: An Inpatient Sensory Ethnography.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Anorexia nervosa in children and adolescents: an early detection of risk factors.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2024Article
- Experiences of intensive treatment for people with eating disorders: a systematic review and thematic synthesis.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Review
- Discordant conceptualisations of eating disorder recovery and their influence on the construct of terminality.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Anorexia nervosa through the lens of a severe and enduring experience: 'lost in a big world'.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Self-disclosure by adolescents in therapy for eating difficulties: A Q-Methodology study.Clinical child psychology and psychiatry · 2024Article
- What kind of illness is anorexia nervosa? Revisited: some preliminary thoughts to finding a cure.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Conceptualisation of severe and enduring anorexia nervosa: a qualitative meta-synthesis.BMC psychiatry · 2023Review
- A lived experience response to the proposed diagnosis of terminal anorexia nervosa: learning from iatrogenic harm, ambivalence and enduring hope.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- "Your mind doesn't have room for anything else": a qualitative study of perceptions of cognitive functioning during and after recovery from anorexia nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
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Abstract
Anorexia Nervosa (AN) has the highest mortality rate of the mental disorders, with still less than 50% of affected individuals achieving recovery. Recent calls to bring innovative, empirical research strategies to the understanding of illness and its core psychopathological features highlight the need to address significant paucity of efficacious treatment. The current study brings a phenomenological approach to this challenge, synthesizing lived experience phenomena as described by qualitative literature. Fifty-three studies published between the years 1998 and 2021 comprising a total of 1557 participants aged 12-66 suffering from AN or sub-threshold AN are included. Reciprocal and refutational analysis generated six key third-order constructs: "emotion experienced as overwhelming," "identity," "AN as a tool," "internal conflict relating to Anorexia," "interpersonal communication difficulties" and "corporeality." Twenty-six sub-themes were identified, the most common being fear, avoidance, AN as guardian/protector, and AN as intertwined with identity. Some themes associated with current treatment models such as low self-esteem, need for social approval and feelings of fatness were less common. We highlight the significant role of intense and confusing emotion in AN, which is both rooted in and engenders amplified fear and anxiety. Restrictive eating functions to numb these feelings and withdraw an individual from a chaotic and threatening world whilst providing a sense of self around which to build an illness identity. Results have implications for therapeutic practice and overly protective weight and shape focused medical treatment models, which may serve to reinforce the disease.
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