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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"anorexic"”.
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The Utilization of Art Therapy Techniqaues with Hospitalized Anorexic Patients
… my internship in working with twenty seven anorexics using Art Therapy techniques. Since my internship also included work with a severely Learning Disabled and retarded adolescent, changes in her Body Image perception, externally as well as internally, caused me to consider the same …
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Aldehyde-driven transcriptional stress triggers an anorexic DNA damage response
… formaldehyde, whilst also suppressing an anorexic endocrine signal. The activation of this signal might contribute to the cachexia observed in CS as well chemotherapy-induced anorectic weight loss. A plausible evolutionary purpose for such a response is to ensure aversion to genotoxins in …
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Hypothalamic Regulation of Food Intake in Obese and Anorexic Avian Models
Chickens from lines that have been divergently selected for either low (LWS) or high (HWS) body weight at 56 days of age for more than 57 generations serve as unique models to study eating disorders. The LWS have different severities of anorexia while all HWS become obese. Over the past decade our …
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The experience of living with an anorexic voice: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… has more recently been referred to as the anorexic voice (AV). For the most part, the AV is recognised as internally generated, importantly, it is often reported as an experience altogether alien to one`s sense of self, distinct from one`s inner thoughts and dialogue hence why it is called …
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Modeling a multiple, contradictory self : collective voices of (anorexic) identity from cyberspace.
… post-structuralist discourse analysis of (anorexic) narrative and the theory of the dialogical self, I suggest a model of collective voices of (anorexic) identity.
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Fonctionnement du concept de soi facteur prévisionnel des symptômes anorexiques
… of its different dimensions on the evolution of anorexic symptoms over a period of 140 consecutive days. in two different samples comprising 26 anorexic outpatients and inpatients and in 23 girls without eating disorders (ED). By applying an idiographic approach, the main results show that the …
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A discourse analysis of pro-anorexia webstie
… of drawing upon alternative positions to the anorexic voice and finding the “authentic” self (Weaver, Wuest, & Ciliska 2005). In recent years, pro - anorexia websites have emerged over the Internet. These websites have been criticised by health professionals for glamorising anorexia as a …
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Being and doing anorexia nervosa: An exploration of diagnosis, identity-work, and performance of illness.
… how individuals learn a diagnostically-informed anorexic identity in treatment contexts. However, diagnostic understandings are not necessarily wholly accepted or internalised. Rather, they are reflectively and critically engaged with, such that individuals may reject aspects of the diagnosis and …
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Male Anorexia Nervosa: an Exploratory Study
… illuminated unique features of the male anorexic as well as characteristics shared with females. The Assessment of Anorexia Nervosa in Males Questionnaire (AANMQ) was developed for this study to assess an expert panel's clinical observations regarding potential misdiagnosis and treatment …
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Popular Culture’s Growing Role in Shaping Teenagers’ Perception of Body Image
… opinion about the perfect body image, the anorexic-like one, by drawing specific examples from various media contents, such as movies and songs. I conclude my findings by highlighting that several Hollywood actresses and singers speak up for fat acceptance and positive body image.
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The mirror within: An art therapy research project identifying the links between anorexia nervosa, object relations and the potential role of art as the transitional object
… whether art therapy could assist in identifying anorexic clients' ego boundary delineations using an object relations framework (That is, either enmeshed, inter related or isolated). Utilising Elkisch's picture analysis procedure, client art works were analysed by contrasting positive and …
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Skinny
… hunger. Giselle is a twenty-one year-old, anorexic, Pre-Med student. Holly is a fourteen year-old athlete who, while trying to come to terms with her sister's anorexia, is discovering her own sexuality. In both the present and in memory, the sisters share a close yet estranged relationship …
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The Metabolic and Hormonal Effect of Prolonged Submaximal Exercise in Pregnancy and in Anorexia Nervosa (Essential Fatty Acids)
… body weight and had normal metabolic rates. The anorexic group of women were a mean of 25% below ideal weight and had an increased metabolic efficiency compared with control subjects.
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Self-Concept of Eating-Restrained Women: A Study of Personal Constructs
… were qualitatively distinct from anorexic women: consequently this group was renamed the non-weight-preoccupied eating-rest rained group. In analyses that compared the non-weight-preoccupied group with matched neurotic and low neurotic groups, no differences were found on the …
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Bulimic bodies and “bearers of production” : representing bulimia in Todd Haynes’s Superstar: the Karen Carpenter story and Mika Rottenberg’s NoNoseKnows
… are often tautological, with her diagnosis as anorexic turning the spotlight on her controlling mother and low weight, as they are two main components often found in theories of anorexia; this focus then makes anorexia seem to be the obvious— even only —diagnosis. The main process of her …
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Behavioural assays of the effects of antidepressant drug treatment on the functioning of catecholamine systems
… receptor function were investigated using the anorexic effects of low doses of amphetamine and apomorphine as assays of beta-adrenergic function and presynaptic dopamine function respectively. Anorexia was typically examined using a microstructural analysis of feeding, which was validated …
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Family and Individual Variables Associated With Disordered Eating
… internalized by a woman, which in turn predict anorexic, bulimic, and binge eating symptoms among college women. The model tested in this research hypothesized that perceived family control toward eating and weight, family preoccupation toward eating and weight, and family criticism are …
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Body image/imagining bodies: Trauma, control, and healing in graphic memoirs about anorexia
… its ability to function as a how-to manual for anorexics. Anorexia is a complex disease that exists largely within the mind of the anorexic, yet its toll can be visibly seen on the body. Graphic pathographies, with their ability to simultaneously show through the visual format and tell through …
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The relationship of psychosexual factors and eating disorders
… 41 female eating disordered patients (16 anorexics and 25 bulimics), diagnosed using the DSM-III-R criteria. These patients were recruited from The Eating Disorders Program at St. Albans Psychiatric Hospital in Radford, Virginia. Five hypotheses were tested concerning the following …
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