Eating Disorder Symptoms
In the late 1800s, the curtain was about to rise on modern conceptions of
anxiety. Victorians were beginning to get a glimpse of a new world, a world
characterized by radical transformations, such as the telegraph, new theories
of evolution and religion, telephones, light bulbs, elevators, and new forms
of transportation. Such transformations seemed to produce a special kind of
fear, a fear that we might call today general anxiety. Among burgeoning attention
to the study of “mental states,” such as William James’ seminal
work Principles of Psychology and Freud’s theory of the unconscious
mind, Victorian doctors increasingly noted a rise in a previously obscure disorder
called “hysteria.”Hysteria, from the Greek hysterikos (“of
the womb”) was mainly associated with women and was indeed thought
to be caused by a dysfunction of the uterus (Stacey 2002). The symptoms,
mostly exhibited by women, were physical, but they also seemed to be linked
to psychological factors and emotional distress.
Eating Disorder Symptoms
Eating Disorder Symptoms
Eating Disorder Symptoms
Eating Disorder Symptoms
Eating Disorder Symptoms
Eating Disorder Symptoms
Eating Disorder Symptoms
Eating Disorder Symptoms
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