Creative endeavours in eating disorder research
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2015
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Hodge, L.
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Bryant, L.
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Source details - Title: Critical and creative research methodologies in social work, 2015 / Bryant, L. (ed./s), Ch.9, pp.173-188
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The dominant way of understanding and treating eating disorders in women who have been sexually abused as children is problematic. This is because child sexual abuse is understood, in medical terms, as resulting in the development of mental illness (Warner, 2009). It is easier to think about the enduring misery created by child sexual abuse in terms of illness. However, by pathologising women's abuse experiences distress is privatised. This undermines the ability of women to speak out about social injustices. Similarly, dominant theories that explain the aetiology of eating disorders remain individually focused.
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Copyright 2015 Lia Bryant