Journal

Whilst a technical text might be translated from one language to another quite functionally, poetry rarely survives such conversation. The practice of psy is a marriage of science and art. Whilst we can converse from alternate paradigms on the absolutes of research and dichotomous outcomes, attempting to alter the poetry of our practice into the dominant discourse is problematic. It is the cost of this Teaching Critical Psychology (Ed. C. Newnes and L. Golding, 2018) calls into...

As published in Project HEAL Syd. Newsletter.

Most days, I talk with people who have experienced disordered eating. One of my favourite things in the world is having these conversations and working with someone to craft a way of being in the world which liberates them from ill serving self-concepts. Leading up to the festive season I have noticed a turn in these conversations. Sometimes a sense of a looming dread clouds over our dialogue as fears beguile a catastrophisation of the very...

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...

As published in Groupsnet Journal October 2012.

The value of body-awareness work with eating disorder clients 

The suffering of an eating disorder can be a very painful physical experience, but the foremost catalyst for the illness, and the fuel that perpetuates it – is very much in cognitive processing. Many sufferers are high achieving, perfectionistic, self-critical, ambitious, sensitive and worriers. Having thought and analysed their experiences for much of life, a...