Body Image

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Body Image

• Mirror, Mirror

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Eating Disorders

• 8,000,000 people in the United States have
  diagnosed eating
• disorders
• 90 of people diagnosed
• with eating disorders are
• women

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More Statistics

• 10 of U.S. girls and women are suffering from
  eating disorders
• 50,000 will die as a direct result
• Eating disorders and substance abuse have the
  highest mortality of all psychiatric disorders

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Quote

• If we place pornography and the tyranny of
  slenderness alongside one another, we have the
  two most significant obsessions of our culture,
  and both of them focused upon a womans body.
  Kim Chernin
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Cosmetic Surgery

• Cosmetic surgery is the fastest growing medical
  specialty. Throughout the 1980s as women gained
  power, unprecedented numbers of them sought out
  and submitted to the knife.
• Naomi Wolf
• Men are beginning to enter into cosmetic surgery
  with the same desire as women to fit the cultural
  norm.

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Origins of Body Image

• We are not born with a body image. We learn
  it from family, peers, the press, movies, and
  television. Our culture reinforces only certain
  images.

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A relationship has been demonstrated between the
development of personal boundaries and body
image.Susan Orbach, Fat is a Feminist Issue
Hunger Strike Anorexia as a Metaphor for Our
Age The Womens Therapy Centre InstituteEating
Problems a Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment
Model have
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Body Image Is

• Mental
• Physical
• Emotional
• Perceptive
• Imaginative

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Mens Image Issues

• Glamorous macho figures
• Tough
• Muscular
• Competitive
• Athletic

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Media Influence

• Models
• Health and fashion magazine covers
• Computer doctored photos
• Barbie and Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Music-video queens and kings
• Movies, billboards, television

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The Diet/Fitness CrazeWe are influenced through

• Diet foods
• Diet commercials
• Diet centers
• Diet books
• abs and workout videos
• Health clubs
• Body size talk
• Fashion

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The Media Influence

• Billions are spent on cosmetics, new diets, and
  clothes
• We are constantly trying to reshape and remake
  our bodies into the media image

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Personal BoundariesPhysical Limits

• our skin distinguishes between what is inside and
  outside of us
• we determine what to physically put into our
  bodies and how we take care of ourselves

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Personal Psychological Boundaries

• A person with strong psychological boundaries
  helps others but maintains his or her sense of
  self and has an intrinsic sense of self
• A person with weak psychological boundaries
  has an extrinsic sense of self and cant maintain
  boundaries
• might have sex with anyone who wants them as a
  way to try to feel whole
• might find it painful to be alone

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Personal BoundariesPsychological Emotional
Limits

• boundaries are based upon how we were held and
  touched early in life (or not touched)
• early touching provides us with sensory
  information
• consequently, our boundaries may be clear or
  unclear
• maintaining limits that are within our value
  system is essential

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Body Image

• Directly related to self-esteem
• Developed through interactions with others
• Reflects our mental picture of ourselves
• Contains our thoughts, feelings, judgments,
  sensations, awareness and behavior

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Body Image Questionnaire
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You Can Develop a Healthy Body Image

• Listen to your body, and eat only when you are
  hungry.
• Be realistic about the size you are likely to be
  based on your genetics and environment.

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Developing a Healthy Body Image

• 3. Exercise regularly doing something you enjoy.
• 4. Expect normal weekly and monthly changes in
  weight and shape.
• 5. Be gentle with yourself work toward self-
  acceptance and forgiveness.

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Developing a Healthy Body Image

• 6. Ask for encouragement from friends and family
  when life is stressful.
• 7. Make some life decisions about what is most
  important to you and pursue them.

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The Three As

• Attention listening to internal cues
• Appreciation enjoying the pleasure your body
  can provide
• Acceptance accepting what is instead of longing
  for what is not

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What You Can Do

• Force yourself to look for your good points in
  the mirror
• Decide which of the cultural pressures prevent
  you from feeling good about yourself
• Exercise to feel good about yourself

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What You Can Do

• Give up dieting and bail on the scale
• Eat healthy
• Challenge size-bigotry and fight size
  discrimination by refusing to speak negatively of
  others
• Dont let every new inch or curve upset you

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Enjoy Your Life

• Work on focusing your thoughts and energy toward
  the unique and amazing person you are rather than
  focusing on what you believe you are not.