Os heróis, vítimas e vilões: discursos sobre a anorexia nervosa.
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2012
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Este artigo apresenta uma revisão da literatura sobre os discursos dominantes sobre a anorexia nervosa da Idade
Média à actualidade. Coloca em destaque os heróis, vilões e vítimas, culminando num olhar sistémico-familiar.
Se durante séculos predominaram narrativas individuais de heroínas santas, posteriormente, na era do pensamento
médico, estas heroínas passaram a vítimas de uma doença mental. Mais tarde, com os movimentos da anti-psiquiatria
e da terapia familiar, emergem novas narrativas com mais protagonistas: os familiares. Se, primeiramente, as fa-
mílias são retratadas como vilãs, dadas as suas influências nocivas, nas últimas décadas as famílias são ilustradas
como sistemas vítimas do impacto da doença. Na actualidade, surgem narrativas de famílias competentes, capazes
de superar o problema. Este artigo termina refletindo sobre esta multiplicidade de leituras e suas implicações.
This article presents a literature review of the dominant discourses on anorexia nervosa from Middle Ages to the present. It puts on evidence heroes, villains and victims, culminating in a family systemic look. At the beginning, individuals narratives of saints heroines were prevailing, in the age of the medical thought, these heroines became victims of mental illness. Later, with the anti-psychiatry and family therapy movements, new narratives come into view with more protagonists: the relatives. If, firstly, families are shown as villains, having harmful influences, in the last decades the families became systems that suffer with the impact of the disease. And nowadays narratives have descriptions of competent families that are able to deal with the problem. This article ends with a reflexion about these multiple visions and its implications.
This article presents a literature review of the dominant discourses on anorexia nervosa from Middle Ages to the present. It puts on evidence heroes, villains and victims, culminating in a family systemic look. At the beginning, individuals narratives of saints heroines were prevailing, in the age of the medical thought, these heroines became victims of mental illness. Later, with the anti-psychiatry and family therapy movements, new narratives come into view with more protagonists: the relatives. If, firstly, families are shown as villains, having harmful influences, in the last decades the families became systems that suffer with the impact of the disease. And nowadays narratives have descriptions of competent families that are able to deal with the problem. This article ends with a reflexion about these multiple visions and its implications.
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Anorexia nervosa, Relações familiares, História, Family relations, History
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Araújo, M., Henriques, M., Brandão, I., & Torres, A.R. (2012). Os heróis, vítimas e vilões: discursos sobre a anorexia nervosa. Psicologia & Sociedade, 24 (2), 472-483.
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