Construction of Eating Disorders

​Alison Fixsen is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology in the School of Social Sciences, University of Westminster, UK. Alison has had decades of experience in the food, health, and higher education sector, including previous work managing a vegetarian wholefood business and as a complementary therapist before completing her Professional Doctorate in Higher Education Practice. Since 2012, Dr Fixsen has authored over 34 journal papers and book chapters on a wide range of issues relating to the critical mental health and gender studies, neoliberalism and self-care, eating disorders, prescription drug use and critical approaches to social prescribing.

• Chapter 1: How We Became Disordered Eaters.- Chapter 2: Bodies beyond Conformity.- Chapter 3: Anorexia Nervosa: the Making of the First Eating Disorder.- Chapter 4: ED diagnosis and Therapeutic Frameworks.- Chapter 5: disordered eating, food landscapes and public health.- Chapter 6: Biopolitics of Weight and Disordered Eating.- Chapter 7: Disordered Eating and the media industry.- Chapter 8: Disordered Eating in the virtual world.- Chapter 9: Orthorexia Nervosa: Eating Disorder for A Pro-Health Era.- Chapter 10: cultural & technological transformations.