https://doi.org/10.4081/qrmh.2017.6367

Changing the narrative: a social reconstruction of anorexia nervosa

Vol. 1 No. 2 (2017)
Submitted: 2 November 2016
Accepted: 8 February 2017
Published: 21 July 2017
Anorexia nervosa, Social construction, Narrative
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Emily Ciabattoni
emmyciabattoni@gmail.com
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States.
The following article works to externalize anorexia nervosa and reconstruct our understanding of what psychiatry classifies as a mental illness towards a visiting presence. I recognize personal experience as a means to knowing. By analyzing particular artifacts created during the prevalence, distance, and coordination of anorexia nervosa (AN) – I deconstruct societal discourses. This perspective calls us to reconsider other cultural concepts such as control, freedom, etc. In the end, I propose that recovery requires the coordination of multiplicities in which AN is kept in conversation and balanced with other discourses – rather than severing AN’s voice completely.

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Emily Ciabattoni, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Communication BA

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Ciabattoni, Emily. 2017. “Changing the Narrative: A Social Reconstruction of Anorexia Nervosa”. Qualitative Research in Medicine and Healthcare 1 (2). https://doi.org/10.4081/qrmh.2017.6367.

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