‘Bigorexia’ and Muscularity-Oriented Eating Disorder (MODE)
A prolific colleague in Australia, Dr Scott Griffiths, produced this TED talk two years ago, which I was reminded of when it was played to the assembled audience at an…
Posts Categorized: Eating Disorders in Men
Weight Stigma in Men: What, When, and by Whom?
Dr Stephen Anderson alerted me to this via Twitter. Not technically MED research but a significant consideration in my thesis, my book, and the new data I am analysing. It’s…
MAN in the media
In this case, of course, I’m referring to the apt but tritely wrought acronym for Male Anorexia Nervosa. Men with body image issues and anorexia have hit the media once…
Male Eating Disorders: Experiences of Food, Body and Self
It’s here – well, actually it was here back in November as an e-book but this year my book came out in print. As a bibliophile, I can barely describe…
The Fat Male Body in Eating Disorders Research
[originally published in 2015, pre-book publication] 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…
Hope with Eating Disorders Launches Today
It’s Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2019 – an excellent time to focus on a new book. Biased as I am (having authored Chapter 8 Eating Disorders in Men), this book…
Do a PhD in Male Eating Disorders
For people who wish to self-fund doctoral studies for their continuing professional development or initial research training, there is a new opportunity to study with me at Bradford. “Eating Disorders…
Tresca’s An Exploration of Men’s Experiences of Motivation to Change in Relation to their Journey with Anorexia Nervosa.
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…
The Psychology of Eating Disorders Stigma
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…
‘The fugly man’: male experiences of living in an eating disordered body.
Seminar @ Loughborough University, National Centre for Sports & Exercise Medicine. Dr Emma Haycraft, Reader at Loughborough, hosted this seminar. I was thrilled that the room turned out to have…
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…
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…