Eating Disorder
Internalizing the impossible: Anorexic outpatients’ experiences with women’s beauty and fashion magazines
Giselle Sanchez
Introductory Psychology
TueThurs: 2:30-3:45
Long Beach City College, Fall 2011
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to analyze how anorexia can develop in some young women due to beauty and fashion magazines (Thomsen 2001). In this experiment 28 outpatients were interviewed to analyze deeply how this phenomenon begins and why. Patients are asked how these magazines have an influence on them and what they think about it. In the findings it is also demonstrated how these magazines are used to fulfill “needs” that occur as a result of the nexus of personality, familial, and emotional factors and issues that arise in these young women’s lives (Thomsen 2001). This article could be improved by having more experiments done not only to women and young women but also to young men and men who may also suffer from this disorder. My research comes from the journal article I picked and research sites such as Google scholars, ProQuest and the online school library.
Introduction The purpose of this paper is to analyze how anorexia can develop in some young women due to beauty and fashion magazines (Thomsen 2001). Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by refusal to maintain a healthy body weight and an obsessive fear of gaining weight. It is often coupled with a distorted self image which may be maintained by various cognitive biases that alter how the affected individual evaluates and thinks about her or his body, food and eating (Thomsen 2001). Along with anorexia come bulimia nervosa which is an illness in which a person binges on food or has regular episodes of overeating and feels a loss of control. The affected person then uses various methods -- such as vomiting or laxative abuse -- to prevent weight gain (Yager & Andersen 2005). A deep understanding is found in which anorexic women experience and use women’s beauty and
Giselle Sanchez
Introductory Psychology
TueThurs: 2:30-3:45
Long Beach City College, Fall 2011
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to analyze how anorexia can develop in some young women due to beauty and fashion magazines (Thomsen 2001). In this experiment 28 outpatients were interviewed to analyze deeply how this phenomenon begins and why. Patients are asked how these magazines have an influence on them and what they think about it. In the findings it is also demonstrated how these magazines are used to fulfill “needs” that occur as a result of the nexus of personality, familial, and emotional factors and issues that arise in these young women’s lives (Thomsen 2001). This article could be improved by having more experiments done not only to women and young women but also to young men and men who may also suffer from this disorder. My research comes from the journal article I picked and research sites such as Google scholars, ProQuest and the online school library.
Introduction The purpose of this paper is to analyze how anorexia can develop in some young women due to beauty and fashion magazines (Thomsen 2001). Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by refusal to maintain a healthy body weight and an obsessive fear of gaining weight. It is often coupled with a distorted self image which may be maintained by various cognitive biases that alter how the affected individual evaluates and thinks about her or his body, food and eating (Thomsen 2001). Along with anorexia come bulimia nervosa which is an illness in which a person binges on food or has regular episodes of overeating and feels a loss of control. The affected person then uses various methods -- such as vomiting or laxative abuse -- to prevent weight gain (Yager & Andersen 2005). A deep understanding is found in which anorexic women experience and use women’s beauty and
References: Thomsen, S., McCoy, J., & Williams, M. (2001). Internalizing the impossible: Anorexic outpatients’ experiences with women’s beauty and fashion magazines. Eating disorders: The journal of treatment & prevention, 9(1), 49 – 64. Yager, J., & Andersen, A. (2005). Anorexia nervosa. The New England Journal of Medicine, 353(14), 1481-1488, 1537, 1540. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/223944025?accountid=39846