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…
Posts Tagged: interpretation
Feminist Relational Model and Male EDs
Today I’ve been re-reading something that I’m including in the chapter I’m currently drafting. This tends to happen, despite having completed secondary analysis some time ago, when I need to…
Working between interpretive immersion and chapter drafting – not for the faint-hearted?
Apologies for the decidedly chaotic presentation in this post but here’s the latest outpouring of everything I’ve assembled during my work on the stories you’ve sent in. The sheer number…
The Issue of Empathy in Interpretation
Back in August I journalled about something that I had been meaning to get my head around for quite some time, which is the ability to truly empathise with the…
The Ugly Feeling of Envy
Envy is the absence of heartfelt acceptance. Envy has come through a great deal in the Red Interpretations and before I did any specific research about it, I wanted to…
How ‘The Story of…’ has been arrived at.
For each man I’ve worked with his whole story at anyone time, resisting more traditional social science approaches to break the ext apart into smaller units of analysis. However, what…
Thesis Skeleton Structure
I’ve recently been thinking about how my written up thesis will be organised, thinking it would be complicated and rather hard to mesh all of the interwoven interpretations together, especially…
Interpretation 2 (Yellow Interpretation)
Similar to my previous post then, going back over my sixteen stories you’ve sent me has me (re-)evaluating what was previously blogged. Interpretation 2 – Empathic = this is probably…
The hermeneutic circle goes around and around…going back to Interpretation 1 (Red Interpretation)
The first layer of my interpretive stages that I blogged an age ago, was formulated two years ago, then revisited last year and began to be actively used in my…
Defiantly Hermeneutic
What has struck me, from my humble beginnings almost twelve months ago when my call for participants ended, is just how ‘wrong’ the current one size fits all of research…
Feel the fear…
I have been immersed in my interpretive work most of the day again, but I’ve broken off, firstly because I need a break (my eyes are going glassy from close…