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…
Posts Categorized: Eating Disorders in Men
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…
Kissing on the lips; male-to-male touch; the hairy male body; …and more in 2019
There is much coming up because I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting in my research journal on things that emerge through media outlets, which are intertwined with my research…
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…
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…