Instagram can offer a supportive online community to people recovering from eating disorders. It can also reinforce stereotypes of eating disordered bodies.
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A new psychological intervention can help any parents - even those crippled by fear and self-blame - to become powerful recovery coaches to children with eating disorders.
Netflix’s new film To The Bone simplifies the social causes of anorexia.
To the Bone has attracted comment from mental health professionals and advocates. Critics have concerns it could cause or worsen eating disorder symptoms.
People with anorexia and bulimia often have a strange desire to be near the very thing that is being avoided.
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has asked the Medicare review taskforce to consider increasing the number of subsidised mental health sessions for those with eating disorders. Why is that necessary?
A complex issue requires sensitive techniques.
Can new ways of using electric currents to stimulate the brain help reduce symptoms of one of the most debilitating eating disorders?
Until now, the processes that lead some girls to start developing before others have been poorly understood.
Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy Mark Butler told Q&A that eating disorders “are the mental illness type which has the highest mortality rate”. We check the research.
The ‘fitspo’ movement may be aiming to promote a healthier body image for women, but in truth it’s just another narrow set of ideals about what women should look like.
Young women (and men) have been dramatically restricting their calorie intake for centuries, but not all the symptoms of modern anorexia have always been present.
Anorexia and bulimia only account for around half of eating disorders yet too often they’re the only ones we take seriously.
Polls show Americans have become less trusting and more suspicious.
Backlash to ‘throwback’ slimming ad is a win for the bikini terrorists
Biological and psychological factors are implicated in anorexia. If it was just about media, why are many more people obese?
The French government is backing parliamentary plans to ban unhealthily thin models from catwalks, but do the bodies of these models really affect women’s self-image?
The US Food and Drug Administration has just approved the use of lisdexamfetamine dimesylate for the treatment of binge eating disorder. Licensed under the brand name Vyvanse, lisdexamfetamine is the first…
Launched in 1959, named after the inventor’s daughter Barbara, and owned by 99% of 3-10 year old girls in the USA, Barbie has been a popular request on young girls’ Christmas wish lists for 55 years. So…
The widespread perception that only women suffer from eating disorders has ill-effects on men who also suffer from problems such as anorexia and bulimia. A new study in BMJ Open points out that many men…
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Clinical Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Canberra
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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Anschutz
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Professor, Head of Body Image, Eating and Weight Disorders Research, Adelaide University
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Professor of Psychology, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Research Fellow, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University
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Associate Professor in Health and Physical Education, Victoria University
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Senior Lecturer, Psychology, Bournemouth University
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Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Health Psychology, University of Surrey