ArticleJournal of eating disorders2023
Weighing in: qualitative explorations of weight restoration as recovery in anorexia nervosa.
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- What does taking olanzapine mean to young people with anorexia nervosa and their families? Findings from the OPEN feasibility trial.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Beyond the Diagnostic Checklist: A Large-Scale Analysis of Under-Recognized Weight Loss Behaviors in Individuals With Eating Disorders.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Exploring the ruling relations of eating disorder treatment in Ontario.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
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- Healing at the intersections through lyric, beat and rhyme.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Adolescent Patient Perspectives on Family-Based Treatment: A Pilot Study.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Neuroanatomical associations with autistic characteristics in those with acute anorexia nervosa and weight-restored individuals.Psychological medicine · 2025Article
- Analysis of Suicidal Behavior in Adult Inpatients with Anorexia Nervosa: Prevalence of Suicide Attempts and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury and Associated Factors-Data Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Navigating the ethical complexities of severe and enduring (longstanding) eating disorders: tools for critically reflective practice and collaborative decision-making.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Review
- Two identical twin pairs discordant for longstanding anorexia nervosa and OSFED: lived experience accounts of eating disorder and recovery processes.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Ethical implications of defining longstanding anorexia nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- What kind of illness is anorexia nervosa? Revisited: some preliminary thoughts to finding a cure.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Inaccessibility of care and inequitable conceptions of suffering: a collective response to the construction of "terminal" anorexia nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundAnorexia Nervosa (AN) continues to capture the public's imagination, centered around physical appearance, particularly weight. Clinical conceptions of AN also emphasize weight. The objective of this study was to explore how individuals with lived AN experience thought about the role of weight in illness and recovery.
methodsThe current study employed a grounded theory approach through qualitative inductive inquiry and analysis of 150 anonymous narratives, exploring firsthand experience of AN and recovery of adult individuals, based in the United States of America.
resultsIndividuals with AN histories contested intersecting popular cultural and medical presumptions of their health and illness positioned in weight. Respondents indicated that while weight does not measure recovery, it matters to recovery in unanticipated ways. Others' expectations for a low weight served as a gatekeeper to various forms of social and institutional support. Respondents felt that the weight obsessions of other people made it difficult to earn the illness legitimacy to access sufficient care.
conclusionsResearch findings bear implications for future AN research, advocacy, and clinical practice, as respondents pivot research emphasis from weight as a sociocultural motivation for AN, to weight as a sociocultural obstacle to AN recovery.
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