Sensing and making sense of the anorexic body
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Resumo: | ObjectiveThis study aims at describing the physical experience felt during anorexia nervosa and understanding the sense anorexic sufferers attribute to behaviours of dietary restriction and purgation present in this kind of eating disorder. MethodsEthnography and the biographic method were used to follow eight anorexia sufferers to obtain a detailed description of the content of their experience with the illness. Interviews, letters and diaries were used to reconstruct the narrative of their life stories. The field work was done in Curitiba (PR) Brazil, from January to September of 2003. ResultsThe phenomenological approach used in the study privileges the experience as told by the patient who uses the reconstruction of his or her life story to bring up what he or she experienced. In this discussion, the body assumes a central role because it is not only the foundation and condition for the individual to take part in the social world, but also the foundation for the socially built experience of anorexia nervosa. The sense attributed by the individual to his or her experience is the result of the combination of his or her life story and the knowledge gained by living, together with that which is experimented through the body in an intersubjectiveworld. The distorted body image is directly related to one’s life experiences and the behaviours are a manifestation of the desire of changing his or her own reality. ConclusionThis study showed that the body is an important dimension to be recognized in order to understand the process of falling ill. It also raised specific questions that need to be studied regarding the genesis of anorexia nervosa in modern Western societies. It revealed that the bodily experience in anorexia nervosa communicates a social dimension of the disease, where the meanings are always constructed and shared with people belonging to the social microcosm of the subject. Narrating this experience is, to some extent, revealing the cultural values of a society. |
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Sensing and making sense of the anorexic bodyO corpo sentido e os sentidos do corpo anoréxicoBodyAnorexia nervosaEating disordersAnorexia nervosaCorpoTranstornos alimentaresObjectiveThis study aims at describing the physical experience felt during anorexia nervosa and understanding the sense anorexic sufferers attribute to behaviours of dietary restriction and purgation present in this kind of eating disorder. MethodsEthnography and the biographic method were used to follow eight anorexia sufferers to obtain a detailed description of the content of their experience with the illness. Interviews, letters and diaries were used to reconstruct the narrative of their life stories. The field work was done in Curitiba (PR) Brazil, from January to September of 2003. ResultsThe phenomenological approach used in the study privileges the experience as told by the patient who uses the reconstruction of his or her life story to bring up what he or she experienced. In this discussion, the body assumes a central role because it is not only the foundation and condition for the individual to take part in the social world, but also the foundation for the socially built experience of anorexia nervosa. The sense attributed by the individual to his or her experience is the result of the combination of his or her life story and the knowledge gained by living, together with that which is experimented through the body in an intersubjectiveworld. The distorted body image is directly related to one’s life experiences and the behaviours are a manifestation of the desire of changing his or her own reality. ConclusionThis study showed that the body is an important dimension to be recognized in order to understand the process of falling ill. It also raised specific questions that need to be studied regarding the genesis of anorexia nervosa in modern Western societies. It revealed that the bodily experience in anorexia nervosa communicates a social dimension of the disease, where the meanings are always constructed and shared with people belonging to the social microcosm of the subject. Narrating this experience is, to some extent, revealing the cultural values of a society.ObjetivoO objetivo deste estudo é descrever a experiência corporal na anorexia nervosa e compreender os sentidos que os indivíduos anoréxicos atribuem às práticas corporais de restrição e purgação presentes nesse tipo de transtorno alimentar. MétodosA partir da etnografia e do método biográfico foram acompanhados oito indivíduos anoréxicos para uma descrição intensa do conteúdo das experiências de doença. Foram reconstituídas narrativas sobre a história de vida apoiadas em depoimentos autobiográficos, cartas e diários pessoais. O estudo foi realizado em Curitiba, no período de janeiro a setembro de 2003. ResultadosA abordagem fenomenológica utilizada privilegia a experiência contada pelo indivíduo que, pela reconstituição da história de vida pretende trazer à tona o conteúdo do vivido. Nessa discussão o corpo assume uma posição central pois, além de ser o fundamento e a condição para participar do mundo social, ele aparece também como o alicerce para a experiência socialmente constituída da anorexia nervosa. Os significados atribuídos pelos indivíduos à sua experiência são o resultado de um cruzamento entre, sua história biográfica e o conhecimento significativamente apreendido por meio dela, juntamente com aquilo que foi experimentado pelo corpo em um mundo intersubjetivo. A imagem corporal distorcida na anorexia nervosa expressa um vivido relacional pela anoréxica, e as práticas corporais são a manifestação de um desejo de transformação da sua realidade. ConclusãoEste estudo mostrou que o corpo é uma dimensão importante a ser reconhecida para a compreensão do processo de adoecer e levantou ainda questões específicas a serem estudadas sobre a gênese da anorexia nas sociedades modernas ocidentais. Revelou que a experiência corporal na anorexia comunica uma dimensão social da doença, em que os significados são sempre construídos e compartilhados com pessoas do microcosmo social do sujeito. Contar sobre essa experiência é, de certa forma, desvelar os valores culturais da sociedade. 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Sensing and making sense of the anorexic body O corpo sentido e os sentidos do corpo anoréxico |
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Sensing and making sense of the anorexic body Formighieri GIORDANI, Rubia Carla Body Anorexia nervosa Eating disorders Anorexia nervosa Corpo Transtornos alimentares |
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ObjectiveThis study aims at describing the physical experience felt during anorexia nervosa and understanding the sense anorexic sufferers attribute to behaviours of dietary restriction and purgation present in this kind of eating disorder. MethodsEthnography and the biographic method were used to follow eight anorexia sufferers to obtain a detailed description of the content of their experience with the illness. Interviews, letters and diaries were used to reconstruct the narrative of their life stories. The field work was done in Curitiba (PR) Brazil, from January to September of 2003. ResultsThe phenomenological approach used in the study privileges the experience as told by the patient who uses the reconstruction of his or her life story to bring up what he or she experienced. In this discussion, the body assumes a central role because it is not only the foundation and condition for the individual to take part in the social world, but also the foundation for the socially built experience of anorexia nervosa. The sense attributed by the individual to his or her experience is the result of the combination of his or her life story and the knowledge gained by living, together with that which is experimented through the body in an intersubjectiveworld. The distorted body image is directly related to one’s life experiences and the behaviours are a manifestation of the desire of changing his or her own reality. ConclusionThis study showed that the body is an important dimension to be recognized in order to understand the process of falling ill. It also raised specific questions that need to be studied regarding the genesis of anorexia nervosa in modern Western societies. It revealed that the bodily experience in anorexia nervosa communicates a social dimension of the disease, where the meanings are always constructed and shared with people belonging to the social microcosm of the subject. Narrating this experience is, to some extent, revealing the cultural values of a society. |
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