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Body image among eating disorder patients with disabilities : a review of published case studies
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Cicmil, Nela and Eli, Karin (2014) Body image among eating disorder patients with disabilities : a review of published case studies. Body image , 11 (3). pp. 266-274. doi:10.1016/j.bodyim.2014.04.001 ISSN 1873-6807.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2014.04.001
Abstract
While individual cases of eating disorder (ED) patients with disabilities have been reported, there has been little synthesis of their experiences of body image and thin idealization. This study reviews 19 published clinical reports of ED patients with sensory, mobility-related, or intellectual disabilities and evaluates the extent to which their experiences align with or challenge current conceptions of body image in ED. ED patients with visual impairment reported a profound disturbance of body image, perceived intersubjectively and through tactile sensations. Reducing dependence in mobility was an important motivation to control body size for ED patients with mobility-related disabilities. ED as a way of coping with and compensating for the psychosocial consequences of disability was a recurrent theme for patients across a range of disabilities. These experiential accounts of ED patients with disabilities broaden current understandings of body image to include touch and kinaesthetic awareness, intersubjective dynamics, and perceptions of normalcy.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Social Science & Systems in Health (SSSH) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Body image | ||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier BV | ||||
| ISSN: | 1873-6807 | ||||
| Official Date: | June 2014 | ||||
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| Volume: | 11 | ||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 266-274 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.bodyim.2014.04.001 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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