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…
Posts Categorized: Eating Disorders in Men
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…
Viva
Yesterday I defended my thesis ‘Exploring male disordered eating: a hermeneutic study of men’s relationships with food, body and self.’ I passed, without corrections. I can’t actually express how thrilled…
Zayn Malik’s ‘Eating Disorder’
It has been a goodly while since I updated my research journal because I’ve been finishing my PhD, which I submitted yesterday (excitingly). This week the media has had a…
Freedom & Chains
My latest publication is out this month: Delderfield, R. (2016) Freedom and chains: the duality of the university experience for young men with eating disorders. University and College Counselling Journal.
Men, gender and misandry: breaching the binary
Tomorrow I’m giving a lecture as part of University of Bradford’s Diversity Festival. This session explores society’s abiding desire for binary genders, the changing nature of 21st century masculinities and…
Binge Eating Disorder Recovery – Food Monitoring
If you’ve read my EDAW posts, you’ll know that I’ve been trying in earnest to begin a recovery programme to free myself from the grip of this set of habits…
Binge Eating Disorder Recovery – a tough week
Beginning to earnestly work on my recovery again has reminded me of a sad but essential fact – working toward recovery is exhausting – and that’s only after four days….
Recovery from Binge Eating Disorder – Yesterday’s Realisation
A long time ago, my therapist asked me if my being vegetarian was more related to my eating disorder than it was to a conscious lifestyle decision around the avoidance…
Recovery from Binge Eating Disorder – Making at Start
So, as Fairburn (see yesterday’s post) rightly predicted, my heart sank when it turned out that the first step in his 6 step programme was to begin monitoring my food…
Returning to recovery
As it’s Eating Disorders Awareness Week, I wanted to mark the occasion by doing something a little different. So, instead of editing excerpts from my research journal I’m going to…
The problem with ED research…?
As part of my research into male disordered eating, at the end of last year I read an article: ‘Perceptions of the causes of eating disorders: a comparison of individuals…