Episodes

  • ED Podcast #15 - Eating Disorders Treatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic Ft. Rachel Bachner-Melman

    ED Podcast #15 - Eating Disorders Treatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic Ft. Rachel Bachner-Melman
    May 26 2020
    In this episode, we host leading eating disorders specialist Professor Rachel Bachner-Melman, for a discussion of how the Covid-19 pandemic is changing eating disorders treatment, and what people with eating disorders and their relatives can do to cope during this difficult time. (The second part, which deals with coping, starts at 21:00.)
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    37 mins
  • Podcast #14 - OCD and Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Podcast #14 - OCD and Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic
    Apr 25 2020
    In this episode, we discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic might affect people who live with anxiety, and explore some ways of managing stress in this time of uncertainty.
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    28 mins
  • ED Podcast #13 - Tipping Points and Recovering

    ED Podcast #13 - Tipping Points and Recovering
    Dec 3 2019
    In this episode, we explore critical moments that prompt the decision to recover from an eating disorder, and the everyday actions that maintain the recovery process.
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    30 mins
  • ED Podcast #12 - OCD and Shame

    ED Podcast #12 - OCD and Shame
    Nov 5 2019
    In this episode, we explore how experiences of obsessive-compulsive disorder link with eating disorders, and discuss how stigma and shame silence stories of obsessions and compulsions.

    The excerpt from Erin Van Der Meulen's "View from a body: Situating the lived experience of painful obsessions and compulsions" was used with the author's permission.
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    32 mins
  • ED Podcast #11 - Parents and Siblings

    ED Podcast #11 - Parents and Siblings
    Oct 1 2019
    In this episode, we explore eating disorders in the context of the family, turning our attention to the experiences of parents and siblings, and reflecting on the support they may need.
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    26 mins
  • ED Podcast #10 - Rebellion and Abundance

    ED Podcast #10 - Rebellion and Abundance
    Sep 3 2019
    In this episode, we zoom out from the individual plate to the dinner table, and from the dinner table to the cafe and supermarket, to explore how food, as a social and cultural product, informs and interacts with eating disorders.
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    24 mins
  • Ed Podcast #9 - Altruism and Accusations - Conversation Companion

    Ed Podcast #9 - Altruism and Accusations - Conversation Companion
    Aug 6 2019
    In this companion episode, we comment on the conversation we started in “Altruism and Accusations”. We further question the use of the term “pathological”, and begin to consider some alternative and affirmative ways of conceptualising altruism in relation to eating disorders.
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    11 mins
  • ED Podcast #9 - Altruism and Accusations (Featuring Rachel Bachner-Melman)

    ED Podcast #9 - Altruism and Accusations (Featuring Rachel Bachner-Melman)
    Aug 6 2019
    In this episode, we discuss the concept of “pathological altruism” with our guest, clinical psychologist Dr Rachel Bachner-Melman. We explore the relevance of this concept for eating disorders, but also question the judgment and medicalisation this concept implicates.
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    25 mins