Shame, pride and eating disorders.
This paper explores shame and shame-based responses in eating disorders. Research linking shame with eating disorders and the possible role of shame and pride in the onset and maintenance of eating disorders is reviewed. The experience of shame is likely to be complex, dynamic and variable. However, the key to identifying shame is often via the various coping strategies adopted, which in turn may form part of a maintenance cycle for eating disorder beliefs and behaviours. An outline model of shame and pride cycles in the maintenance of eating disorders is presented with clinical implications.
Goss
Kenneth
K
Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership Trust, Coventry Eating Disorder Service, Coventry, UK. ken.goss@covwarkpt.nhs.uk
Allan
Steven
S
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000523:psychology*; D015992:Body Mass Index; D052018:Bulimia Nervosa / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors; D012649:Self Concept; D012752:Shame