scholarly journals Distorted body image in women and men suffering from Anorexia Nervosa – a literature review

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Kostecka ◽  
Katarzyna Kordyńska ◽  
Sławomir Murawiec ◽  
Katarzyna Kucharska
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Distorted Body Image

Diagnostic Issues in Primary Anorexia Nervosa

1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry Kirstein
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Clinical Case ◽  
Eating Patterns ◽  
Case Presentation ◽  
Body Image Disturbances

A literature review and clinical case presentation approach are employed to highlight unresolved diagnostic issues in Primary Anorexia Nervosa. The material is examined and discussed along a multidimensional list of variables considered important for the diagnosis, including definitions of weight loss, associated biological symptoms, eating patterns and body image disturbances.

scholarly journals Pituitary Adenoma Presenting as Anorexia Nervosa: A Case Report

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-59
Author(s):  
S. Dhungana ◽  
S.P. Ojha ◽  
M. Chapagai ◽  
P. Tulachan
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Weight Loss ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Case Report ◽  
Pituitary Adenoma ◽  
Severe Weight Loss ◽  
Intracranial Lesions ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Distorted Body Image

Anorexia nervosa is a syndrome characterized by severe weight loss and preoccupation of distorted body image with resulting complications due to starvation. In most of the typical cases of anorexia nervosa, neuroimaging is not done. However, with increasing evidence of intracranial lesions associated with eating disorders including anorexia nervosa, neuroimaging is indicated in almost all cases. We present a case of a 17-year-old female who was admitted initially with the diagnosis of anorexia nervosa (restricting type) and later found to have pituitary adenoma.

scholarly journals Spektrum postaw wobec śmierci u osób z anoreksją

2009 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-202
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Starzomska
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Body Weight ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Mortality Rate ◽  
Psychiatric Illness ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Anorexic Patient ◽  
Distorted Body Image ◽  
Attitudes To Death

Anorexia nervosa is a grave psychiatric illness characterized by a distorted body image which triggers intensive self-starvation and — as a consequence — significantly diminished body weight. It can be fatal: the mortality rate is thought to be between 4% and 20%. The very essence of this eating disorder is a categorical refusal to be cured in conjunction with a profound denial of illness. The most peculiar aspect of anorexia nervosa that may account for the denial of illness and the difficulty patients have in accepting treatment is egosyntonicity. It means that the illness is highly valued by afflicted individuals and it is inextricably linked with their sense of identity. Thus this illness is existential. Some researchers describe anorexia nervosa as suicide, but the anorexic understanding of death seems to be more complicated. If anorexia is, for the patient, an avenue to a worthwhile life, then, giving up anorexia — gaining weight — can mean giving up the reason for living. Therefore the refusal of eating that in another patient might look suicidal, may for the anorexic patient be the only way of life. The article analyses various aspects of anorexic attitudes to death.

Distorted Body Image as a Risk Factor in Anorexia Nervosa: Replication and Clarification

1990 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 407-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred B. Heilbrun ◽  
Nancy Witt
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Risk Factor ◽  
College Women ◽  
Distorted Body Image

This study replicated the results of an earlier one in which college women showing psychological similarities to anorexics indicated an unrealistically larger body-image relative to controls but only if they were relatively thin. This kind of perceptual enhancement was not found when inanimate objects were rated. The proposal that an enhanced body image plays a dynamic role in motivating food restraint (and may increase the risk of becoming anorexic) was supported by an analysis of dieting strategies.

Anorexia nervosa: Distorted body image

1981 ◽  
Vol 3 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 281-286
Author(s):  
Mary Elizabeth Canaday
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Distorted Body Image

High Heels sebagai Agensi bagi Tubuh Wanita

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 196
Author(s):  
Sunandar Macpal ◽  
Fathianabilla Azhar
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Body Image Disturbance ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
High Heels ◽  
Experience Pain ◽  
Woman's Body

The aims of this paper is to explain the use of high heels as an agency for a woman's body. Agency context refers to pain in the body but pain is perceived as something positive. In this paper, the method used is a literature review by reviewing writings related to the use of high heels. The findings in this paper that women experience body image disturbance or anxiety because they feel themselves are not beautiful or not attractive. The use of high heels, makes women more attractive and more confident, on the other hand the use of high heels actually makes women feel pain and discomfort. However, for the achievement of beauty standards, women voluntarily allow their bodies to experience pain. However, the agency's willingness to beauty standards here is meaningless without filtering and directly accepted. Instead women keep negotiating with themselves so as to make a decision why use high heels.

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