Research Journal
Barbara Tresca, whom I met a goodly while ago, now – 2015, I think – has completed her clinical psychology doctorate and her thesis is now available. Her diligent and…
My previous blog post for ISCHP deals with the mechanics of how trying to raise awareness of the stigma that men face may well perpetuate further stigma. Stigma takes social interaction…
On the ISCHP mailing list, a fellow member shared a link to a workshop he’d done. He had delivered a highly interactive workshop on Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (FDA). Given the…
Thanks to everyone whom I met at the event at Sheffield Medical School. I was particularly struck by how welcoming everyone was and the high quality of the questions that…
Fear. That’s the only word for it. Abject, unadulterated fear. And yet, I feel as if I’m making too big a deal of it. Although it has taken me until…
Back in May, I bookmarked a piece that I wanted to make sure that I read in the New Scientist. Claire Wilson wrote ‘Our brains prefer invented visual information to…
There is a such a thing as a Severe and Enduring Eating Disorder (SEED). My own disorder as been severe at different points in my life, and has been heading…
The above titled article is newly out in Clinical Psychology Review. Here, I present a cursory analysis of the review and its significance. Here is the abstract: Historically, male presentations…
I wrote a piece this month for the online ED magazine, Mirror-mirror.org. Using some of my qualitative analysis of published stories, written by men who have endured disordered eating, I…
There’s a new article released by Trends in Urology and Men’s Health. It’s a salient, speedy read that covers the essentials and it’s aimed primarily at clinician practitioners to help…
My new project has a novel twist on studying male eating disorders using qualitative analysis. Often in qualitative research, a researcher will take a set of data from something like…
Assessing the prevalence of disordered eating in males continues to be a complex puzzle. Below, I try to make sense of what we can learn from the research literature to…