Book Announcement by Floriana Irtelli (Italy)

In this interdisciplinary book from Cambridge University Press, co-authors Fabio Gabrielli and Floriana Irtelli explore the body’s contact with the world, which occurs in both healthy and pathological ways. Their analysis of corporeality and its pathological offshoots, specifically eating disorders, is not only traced back to technical or classificatory procedures but is also contextualized in a broader vision.

Body Image and Eating Disorders examines our contemporary relationship with food by inserting current body image and eating disorders, like orthorexia and bigorexia, into a broader historical overview. The co-authors combine their knowledge of psychoanalysis and anthropology with scientific research and clinical experience to create this an interdisciplinary work, using psychoanalytic theories about our ‘hyper-modern’ times to trace the impact that mass media has on individuals, families and societies.

The volume explores various ‘food tribes’ and exposes the contradictions of today’s mass media which advertise fitness and dieting alongside increasingly tastier and more accessible foods. The work aims to help us understand our highly social relationship with our bodies and what we eat.

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Fabio Gabrielli, Ph.D. is a clinical practitioner as well as Professor of Philosophical Anthropology and Biochemistry at Ludes University of Lugano, Switzerland, where he has previously served as Dean. Gabrielli has published over 200 works including the papers “Quantum Human and Animal Consciousness” (2011) and “Considerations on Blood Platelets: A Neuron’s Mirror for Mood Disorders?” (2012).

Floriana Irtelli, Psy.D. is a lecturer at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan. She is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist. Irtelli also works at the Fatebenefratelli Hospital in Milan, performing research and clinical activities. She co-edited the collection Psychosis: Biopsychosocial and Relational Perspectives (2018) and authored Contemporary Perspectives on Relational Wellness: Psychoanalysis and the Modern Family (2018).

Floriana Irtelli, Psy.D.
Milan, Italy
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