Anorexia nervosa in light of Karl Jaspers and Erich Fromm’s ideas and social constructivism – hypotheses and thoughts

Journal Title: Psychiatria Polska - Year 2012, Vol 46, Issue 3

Abstract

The point of the article is to analyse and reflect on certain symptoms of anorexia nervosa in light of Karl Jaspers and Erich Fromm’s ideas and social constructivism. Contemplating the disorder in view of the philosophical ideas mentioned earlier, the author analyses such aspects of patients as: functioning on the verge of life and death, the paradoxical struggle to escape from freedom in search of independence, as well as various understandings and descriptions of anorexia in consideration of social constructivism. The author shares thoughts and poses hypotheses, trying to view anorexia in light of selected philosophical and psychological ideas, which in their general assumptions were not concerned with defining nor analysing anorexia nervosa. In view of Karl Jaspers’ ideas, the author focuses on the so called ‘limit-situations’, in the ideas of Erich Fromm she takes notice in „Escape from Freedom” to new relations. Finally in the light of social constructivism the author focuses on the cultural context.

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Małgorzata Talarczyk

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Małgorzata Talarczyk (2012). Anorexia nervosa in light of Karl Jaspers and Erich Fromm’s ideas and social constructivism – hypotheses and thoughts. Psychiatria Polska, 46(3), 429-440. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-135298