Changing the Conversation about Eating Disorders
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Changing the Conversation about Eating Disorders is a monthly podcast from Liron Cohen and Karin Eli. Combining their professional and personal perspectives, They are aiming to create a new discussion about a subject matter that touches so many lives and yet still puzzles most of us
Changing the Conversation about Eating Disorders
4M ago
In this episode, we host leading eating disorders specialist Professor Rachel Bachner-Melman, for a discussion of how the Covid-19 pandemic is changing eating disorders treatment, and what people with eating disorders and their relatives can do to cope during this difficult time. (The second part, which deals with coping, starts at 21:00 ..read more
Changing the Conversation about Eating Disorders
4M ago
In this episode, we discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic might affect people who live with anxiety, and explore some ways of managing stress in this time of uncertainty ..read more
Changing the Conversation about Eating Disorders
4M ago
In this episode, we explore critical moments that prompt the decision to recover from an eating disorder, and the everyday actions that maintain the recovery process ..read more
Changing the Conversation about Eating Disorders
4M ago
In this episode, we explore how experiences of obsessive-compulsive disorder link with eating disorders, and discuss how stigma and shame silence stories of obsessions and compulsions.
The excerpt from Erin Van Der Meulen's "View from a body: Situating the lived experience of painful obsessions and compulsions" was used with the author's permission ..read more
Changing the Conversation about Eating Disorders
4M ago
In this episode, we explore eating disorders in the context of the family, turning our attention to the experiences of parents and siblings, and reflecting on the support they may need ..read more
Changing the Conversation about Eating Disorders
4M ago
In this episode, we zoom out from the individual plate to the dinner table, and from the dinner table to the cafe and supermarket, to explore how food, as a social and cultural product, informs and interacts with eating disorders ..read more
Changing the Conversation about Eating Disorders
4M ago
In this episode, we discuss the concept of “pathological altruism” with our guest, clinical psychologist Dr Rachel Bachner-Melman. We explore the relevance of this concept for eating disorders, but also question the judgment and medicalisation this concept implicates ..read more
Changing the Conversation about Eating Disorders
4M ago
In this companion episode, we comment on the conversation we started in “Altruism and Accusations”. We further question the use of the term “pathological”, and begin to consider some alternative and affirmative ways of conceptualising altruism in relation to eating disorders ..read more
Changing the Conversation about Eating Disorders
4M ago
in this episode, we explore events that trigger eating disorders, and discuss how these triggering events may be related to deep-seated questions of identity and belonging ..read more
Changing the Conversation about Eating Disorders
4M ago
in this episode, we discuss overlaps between eating disorder experiences, and begin to problematise the boundaries between eating disorder diagnoses.
At 17:50 we discuss an important study by Welch et al. (2016). The study is open access - please make sure to check it out: https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-016-0840-7 ..read more