Fabio Gabrielli

Body Image and Eating Disorders (eBook, PDF)

An Anthropological and Psychological Overview

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

One of the paradoxes of our current era is that only 10% of obese or overweight people are actually dieting, whereas nearly 20% of the remaining population are trying to lose weight, even if they do not need to. This volume looks into our contemporary relationship with food by inserting current body image and eating disorders, like orthorexia and bigorexia, into a broader, historical overview. Gabrielli and Irtelli combine their knowledge of psychoanalysis and anthropology with scientific research and clinical experience to create this truly interdisciplinary work. Their study uses psychoanalytical theories about our 'hyper-modern' times to trace the impact that mass media has on individuals, families and societies. It explores various 'food tribes' and exposes the contradictions of today's mass media that advertise fitness and dieting alongside increasingly tastier and accessible foods. The work helps us to understand our highly social relationship with our bodies and what we eat.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009085434
• Artikelnr.: 66177286

Autorenporträt

Dr. Fabio Gabrielli is a clinical practitioner and Professor of Philosophical Anthropology and Biochemistry at Ludes University of Lugano, Switzerland where he has previously served as Dean. Gabrielli has published over two hundred works including papers on 'Quantum Human and Animal Consciousness' (2011) and 'Considerations on Blood Platelets: A Neuron's Mirror for Mood Disorders?' (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Contemporary Perspectives in Anthropology, Philosophy, and
Psychology on the Human Body: An Introductory Overview: 1. The conception
of the human body: An evolutionary study from ancient times to the
hypermodern era; Part II. Brain Without Body, Body Without Brain, and
Contemporary Body Image Disorders: 2. Body schema, body image, and
hypermodern alterations; 3. Alexithymia and somatizations; 4. The myth of
the perfect body image, body dysmorphic disorder, and bigorexia; 5. The
complex relationship between the mind, the body, and the contemporary
environment; Part III. A Specific Analysis: The Hypermodern Contradictory
Relationship With Food: 6. Contemporary social trends regarding food:
paradoxes and food tribes; 7. Orthorexia; 8. Contemporary perspectives on
eating disorders; 9. Nervous bulimia and binge eating disorder: A
contemporary overview; 10. Contemporary on obesity; Part IV. Which Possible
Horizons? Some Final Considerations: 11. Body image, narcissims, and
depression; 12. The global process of psycho-bodily development.