Pluralistic Qualitative Research into Male Eating Disorders
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…
Posts Categorized: Eating Disorders in Men
University of Sheffield – Autoethnography of MED
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…
Researching and Writing about Male Eating Disorders
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…
“Seeing shouldn’t always be believing”: Reflections
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…
Treating my Enduring Eating Disorder
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 enigma of male eating disorders: A critical review and synthesis (Murray et al. 2017)
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…
Experiences of Male Eating Disorder
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…
Quick Musing on New Male Eating Disorders Article
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…
Pluralistic Qualitative Methods for Male Eating Disorders
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…
Prevalence of Male Eating Disorders
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…
The Fat Male Body in Eating Disorders Research
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what it means to be a binge-eater who is male…and fat. Gone are the days when my bingeing was disguised by the edifices…
Managing Research Activity
I feel as if I’ve got an awful lot to do over the next six months, and whilst I have a to-do list app that I actively use on a…