Bulimia Nervosa Analysis

Recovering: Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa is a documentary by Larkin McPhee about the eating disorders anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. The film tells the stories of three people who have had to deal with these disorders. The three people are Arielle, who has anorexia nervosa, Deesha and Frank, who both who are in recovery for bulimia nervosa. I thought the cases chosen for this film were quite good due to the fact they give a good range of who has eating disorders. Arielle’s case was the one that I recognized as being the most similar to what I knew of eating disorders before, and she even states that she fits the profile for someone likely to deal with these kinds of issues. However, her discussion at the beginning of the film
Frank discusses that he lost a large amount of weight in a healthy way but that spiraled into the eating disorder due to the fact he want to see if he could lose another pound after another. I also very surprised by the fact that trauma could trigger an eating disorder, which makes sense, but was very something I had considered could be an issue. The Stockholm Solution: New Therapies for Eating Disorders is a documentary about the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, where they have unusual form of therapy to treat eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. The therapy they use there is focused on teaching its patients how to eat again and they believe that eating disorders are not a psychological issue but those issues appear as a results of starving and purging of
I also believe that whilst not routed in the tradition Freudian treatment of eating disorders, this therapy has a cognitive-behavioral aspect to it. Most obviously noticeable in how this people are relearning a behavior that is beneficial to them. In addition, by distancing the treatment of eating disorders from psychologically focused treatment, the patients can remove themselves from having the stigma caused from mental illness. I am not certain whether eating disorders stem from a psychological issue, due to the fact that mental health does become a serious problem for the people dealing with these disorders but it could stem more from societal pressure that a Freudian thought process that it could be an underlying issue or event that is causing it. An ideal way to find out would be to measure the two different types of treatments together, which was suggested in the film but was explained that those who favor the traditional method completely reject the Karolinska Institute’s research and