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Feeding your feelings

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Feeding your feelings

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Feeding your feelings book

Emotional eating in mid-twentieth-century America

Feeding your feelings

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Feeding your feelings book

Emotional eating in mid-twentieth-century America
ByJessica Parr
BookReading the Psychosomatic in Medical and Popular Culture

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Edition 4th Edition
First Published 2017
Imprint Routledge
Pages 15
eBook ISBN 9781315515694

ABSTRACT

The metaphor of ‘emotional eating’ is often used in popular culture to explain the fat body. Since the 1950s, there has been a correlation between emotions and overeating in the psychology of obesity. This chapter traces the origins of the psychosomatic understanding of obesity in mid-twentieth century psychiatry and how this theory was popularized, and adapted by lay-administered dieting communities in postwar America. The durability of the emotional eating narrative reinforces fat stigma and the regulation of the body through a mind-body model.

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