Changing the Conversation about EDs
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Changing the Conversation about EDs
Changing the Conversation about Eating Disorders is a monthly podcast from Liron Cohen and Karin Eli. Combining our professional and personal perspectives, we're aiming to create a new discussion about a subject matter that touches so many lives and yet still puzzles most of us. New episodes are pos...
Recent Episodes
16 episodes
ED Podcast #15 - Eating Disorders Treatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic Ft. Rachel Bachner-Melman
In this episode, we host leading eating disorders specialist Professor Rachel Bachner-Melman, for a discussion of how the Covid-19 pandemic is changin...
Podcast #14 - OCD and Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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...
ED Podcast #13 - Tipping Points and Recovering
In this episode, we explore critical moments that prompt the decision to recover from an eating disorder, and the everyday actions that maintain the...
ED Podcast #12 - OCD and Shame
In this episode, we explore how experiences of obsessive-compulsive disorder link with eating disorders, and discuss how stigma and shame silence stor...
ED Podcast #11 - Parents and Siblings
In this episode, we explore eating disorders in the context of the family, turning our attention to the experiences of parents and siblings, and refle...
ED Podcast #10 - Rebellion and Abundance
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...
ED Podcast #9 - Altruism and Accusations (Featuring Rachel Bachner-Melman)
In this episode, we discuss the concept of “pathological altruism” with our guest, clinical psychologist Dr Rachel Bachner-Melman. We explore the rele...
Ed Podcast #9 - Altruism and Accusations - Conversation Companion
In this companion episode, we comment on the conversation we started in “Altruism and Accusations”. We further question the use of the term “pathologi...
ED Podcast #8 Visibility and Difference
in this episode, we explore events that trigger eating disorders, and discuss how these triggering events may be related to deep-seated questions of i...
Episode #7 Appetite and Fluidity
in this episode, we discuss overlaps between eating disorder experiences, and begin to problematise the boundaries between eating disorder diagnoses.<...
Episode #6 Connections and Pro-Ana
In this episode, we discuss social attitudes toward pro-ana, and explore why legislation to ban pro-ana content from social media is problematic.
Episode #5 Mirrors and Gaze
In this episode, we explore how eating disorders are represented on television programs and in films, and reflect on the tension between depictions of...
Episode #4 Stereotypes and Identity
In this episode, we reflect critically on the stereotypical image of "the anorexic patient" as a young, white, middle-class woman. We also begin to ex...
Episode #3 Survival and Paradox
In this episode we discuss how anxieties about society and the world might underlie eating disorders, and explore why these anxieties aren't getting a...
Episode #2 Voices and Stories
In this episode we are discussing eating disorders as a means of expression when one feels her suffering is not being heard, the problem with eating d...
Episode #1 Pictures and Beginnings - An Introduction to our Podcast
In our introduction episode we tell you our story and what is different about our conversation about eating disorders. We hope you join us in bringing...