On anorexia and bulimia: conceptions and etiological suppositions from the perspective of Health professionals

Anorexia and bulimia are serious syndromes that require careful management. Clinical practice and literature show, however, that their approach is often inadequate. In this study, we were interested in knowing the discourse of health professionals about the characterization and etiology of these dis...

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Veröffentlicht in:Interface (Botucatu, Brazil) Brazil), 2019-01, Vol.23
Hauptverfasser: Costa-Val, Alexandre, Vívian Andrade Araújo Coelho, Marília Novais da Mata Machado, Rosana Teresa Onocko Campos, Modena, Celina Maria
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Zusammenfassung:Anorexia and bulimia are serious syndromes that require careful management. Clinical practice and literature show, however, that their approach is often inadequate. In this study, we were interested in knowing the discourse of health professionals about the characterization and etiology of these disorders. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 workers from the public health network of a city in Minas Gerais/Brazil. From the points of convergence, divergence and silence of the speech, we locate discursive axes such as distortion of the body image; stigma; the slim body aesthetic pattern conveyed by the media. We came to the discursive formation of all of them through a critical dialogue with medical psychoanalytic and sociological literature. The results point to the insufficiency of biomedical knowledge in this context, indicating the need for dialogues with other theories to reach more effective strategies of approach.
ISSN:1414-3283
1807-5762
DOI:10.1590/interface.170293