Childhood trauma and anorexia nervosa: from body image to embodiment

Health Care for Women International
Jennifer MaleckiJane Ussher

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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