In Grey’s Anatomy – Season 9 Episodes 1 & 2, I am focusing on the character Arizona Robbins and her tragic story about the body. Arizona Robbins is the head …show more content…
“The amputation is often related to chronic illness such as diabetes, vascular disease, and renal insufficiency and high rates of postoperative complications and mortality are reported” (Belmont; Kristensen, Holm, Kirketerp-Møller, Krasheninnikoff, & Gebuhr). Now, think about losing a leg due to a tragic disaster. When the plane crash happened, she completely changed. Losing her leg and going through something as tragic as a plane crash forever changed her life. Amputation involves a loss of body image, loss of function, and a loss of sensation. Body image has four factors, “(1) agreement (i.e., similar actual and ideal body shapes); (2) discrepancy (i.e., different actual and ideal body shapes); (3) direction of discrepancy (i.e., actual > ideal or actual < ideal); and (4) degree of discrepancy (i.e., how different actual and ideal body self-perceptions are).” ( Shauna Solomon-Krakus, M.Sc, Atherine M. Sabiston, Ph.D.correspondence, Ennifer Brunet, Ph.D., Andree L. Castonguay, Ph.D, Katerina Maximova, Ph.D, and ., Mélanie Henderson, M.D., Ph.D. "Body Image Self-Discrepancy and Depressive Symptoms Among Early