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The nature of eating disorders is a complex issue lacking clarity in academic and clinical understanding. Although the medical model predominates in diagnosis (Papathomas & Lavelle, 2012) other models of self and subjectivity may contribute usefully to the understanding and treatment of eating disorders (White, 2011).  There may indeed be a metaphoric link between indigestible social discourses (Papathomas & Lavelle, 2013) and eating disorders. The research project, Eaten...

Eaten Stories Untold (ESU) is a research project interested in how those experiencing disordered eating tell their stories. Valuing the lived experience of disordered eating, I collected a series of electronically submitted texts written by participants, in response to a key set of words about their experience. The writing is to be reviewed through the methodological framework of discourse analysis, with an interpretive framework of narrative theory. 

The aim of this project is to...