Today we did the timed essay in the first lesson - Sarah, Heaven, Francesca & Jack C-J please get this done in your own time and hand it in to me (30 mins without books or notes).
We started to look at sociocultural explanations of anorexia, as part of the psychological explanations. If AN is a purely biological disorder, then we would expect to see cases throughout history and across different cultures. This is largely, but not wholly, what we do see. The real picture is that it is a complicated mix of nature and nurture - media pictures of thinness probably aren't enough on their own to cause AN, but some people do seem more susceptible to them than others.
Today's ppt is here (we will finish it tomorrow morning). Tomorrow we will study psychodynamic explanations of AN.
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