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Hi! I'm Emily Troscianko. A Hunger Artist explores what it's like to have anorexia nervosa & to recover from it, emphasizing, in particular, the powerful interconnections between the sufferer's physical & psychological states. The blog discusses recent directions in clinical research on eating disorders, analyses some of the paradoxes & vicious circles that characterize this..
Psychology Today » A Hunger Artist
1y ago
The ease and satisfaction of interpretation and the devaluing of practical relative to intellectual change are avoidable contributors to paralysis ..read more
Psychology Today » A Hunger Artist
1y ago
Certain structures, beliefs, and practicalities may make it easier to intellectually understand than to act accordingly ..read more
Psychology Today » A Hunger Artist
1y ago
How can we understand—and then bring to an end—the frustration and damage caused by having insight and persistently not acting on it ..read more
Psychology Today » A Hunger Artist
1y ago
A Personal Perspective: Playing games with menus gives you the chance to experience making decisions differently—and even challenge your assumptions about who’s doing it ..read more
Psychology Today » A Hunger Artist
1y ago
The restaurant game helps break the deadlock of exerting control and fearing losing it in eating disorder recovery, by creating experiences that are less about “me” deciding ..read more
Psychology Today » A Hunger Artist
1y ago
Personal Perspective: A thought experiment and a practical suggestion for taking the fat-phobia out of recovery, as a way to take the agony out of it ..read more
Psychology Today » A Hunger Artist
2y ago
Practical self-assessment questions plus simple structural adjustments to help you make rigid rule-following on diet or exercise a thing of the past ..read more
Psychology Today » A Hunger Artist
2y ago
How can understanding the process of relearning effective self-regulation after an eating disorder help us answer wider questions about how to eat and move well ..read more
Psychology Today » A Hunger Artist
2y ago
The all-inclusive experience illuminates how systematically lifting the standard constraints lets the truly effective regulators take back over ..read more
Psychology Today » A Hunger Artist
2y ago
Milkshake pre-load experiments show what you do with ice cream when you normally don’t allow yourself milkshakes, and shows how dietary restraint impedes effective self-regulation ..read more