Narrating anorexia: "Full" and "Struggling" genres of recovery
Narrating anorexia: "Full" and "Struggling" genres of recovery
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10.1525/eth.2007.35.3.344
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2007-09-01
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0.6
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Shohet, Merav
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作者：
Shohet, Merav
通过探索厌食症治疗女性重新定义她们的疾病和康复经历的叙事过程，我确定了两种不同类型的特征，“完全康复”（FR）和“挣扎恢复”（SR），这两种特征不同地塑造了女性的生活自我意识，同时也被女性的生活自我意识所塑造。分析表明，全面复苏可能需要过去和现在的自我在时间上脱节，需要构建一个连贯的赋权叙事，具有清晰的开端、转折点和恰当的、制度上可以容忍的结局。另外，习惯性地讲述模棱两可的挣扎着恢复的叙事，其中主角质疑公认的智慧，思考后和假设的生活道路，并设想自我饥饿是好是坏，这可能会延续一个循环的生命过程，厌食症反复出现，叙述者无法永久恢复。这篇文章阐明了为什么完全康复对一些女性来说可能是短暂的，也许是不可取的，这篇文章有助于研究叙事作为一种治疗媒介和面对疾病的资源的可能作用（和局限性）。
Exploring narrative processes through which women treated for anorexia reframe their illness and recovery experiences, I identify features of two distinct genres, "full recovery" (FR) and "struggling to recover" (SR) that differently shape, while also being shaped by, women's lived senses of self. Analysis suggests that full recovery may entail a temporal disjuncture between past and present selves, and the construction of a coherent empowerment narrative with clear beginnings, turning points, and felicitous, institutionally condoned endings. Alternatively, the habitual telling of equivocal struggling to recover narratives, in which protagonists question received wisdom, ponder post and hypothetical life paths, and envision self-starvation as both good and bad, may perpetuate a cyclical life course in which anorexia recurs and permanent recovery eludes narrators. Illuminating why complete recovery may remain ephemeral and, perhaps, not desirable, for some women, this article contributes to scholarship on the possible role (and limits) of narrative as a therapeutic medium and resource for confronting illness.