Lastly, there will be an opinion about the work offered by the author of this report and summary as to the validity and applicability of this research. While color is often looked at through simple and basic prisms, colors absolutely mean much more than some give credit for when used and displayed in certain ways (Elliot & Niesta, 2008)
The group sessions can provide the acceptance, understanding and social interaction that obese persons might lack in their daily life. Besides sharing information, the participants share a common set of problems and the feeling of belonging, of being integrated in a group can provide additional elements to make therapy efficient and the patients more able to cope with their issues (Allon, 1975)
First of all, women are more concerned with and more affected by the aesthetic norms than men, which is basically a reflection of a socially manufactured division of roles and of a certain definition of feminity (Hopwood, 1995). Second, the cultural factors are corroborated with the family environment, particulalrly a stress placed on the importance of appearance for future success in the discourse of the adults, when socializing the female child for her future social and family life (Boskind-Lodahl, 1976)
Moreover, the methodological theoretical framework of constituting the groups and the work with the patients will be presented and detailed below. To begin with, group therapy is not designed to replace completely the individual counselling and therapy, but "is construed as group methods employed to assist individuals who present maladjustment problems in personality and interpersonal relationships which call for corrective and remedial action" (Dreese, 1957; 219)
As it was pointed out before, obesity affects the self-esteem and the self-worth, both because of the social perspective (as I see myself through the eyes of the others) and because of internal factors. Moreover, obesity does not only stand as an obstacle for the development of a social identity and social networks, but also represents a serious health risk (Dwyer et
(Powdermaker & Frank, 1953) The importance of the group for the effectiveness of the therapeutic program consists also in the fact that there is a leader of the group, who will control and focus the discussion, encouraging the patients to express their emotions and helping them find solutions for their problems, cope with the difficult issues they encounter, develop their social skills and etc. In the particular case analyzed here, the issues to be confronted and solved are the unhealthy eating habits, perceived as forms of compulsive behaviour or as addictive consumption (Faber et
Being overweight represents a certain source of distress for those suffering from it, producing a distortion in the creation and shape of self-image and having a durable influence over self-perception and self-esteem. The studies analyzing the issue of obesity dwell onto multiple aspects, such as - the connection between overweight and psychological well-being (Hayes & Ross, 1986; Ross, 1994), the "risk factors," namely the role of culture and family over eating disorders (Howarth-Hoeppner, 2000), the social constraints in eating patterns (Maykovitch, 1978), management and therapy of obesity (Stewart, 1987)
Furthermore, studies indicate that between 60 and 80% of college women engage in regular binge eating and other abnormal behaviours that fall short of the criteria set by clinical scales. Many college women who are at normal weights continue to express a strong desire to be thinner and to hold beliefs about food and body image that are similar to those of women who have actual eating disorders" (Hesse-Biber et
The fact that the persons involved in this therapeutical project are exclusively women can be supported by several theoretical arguments. First of all, women are more concerned with and more affected by the aesthetic norms than men, which is basically a reflection of a socially manufactured division of roles and of a certain definition of feminity (Hopwood, 1995)
Moreover, not only consumtion patterns or eating habits are to be approached by therapy, but they should be perceived as just one side of the coin, the other being represented by personality disfunctions (low or decreasing self-esteem and self-value) and social inadaptation (diminished social skills). Compulsive consumption (of commodities or of food) is, some might say, a characteristic of the late modern society, where the protestant ethic of production has been replaced by the hedonistic ethics of consumption (Illouz, 1997)
The fact that the study will take place in an educational institution will guarantee the cultural diversity of the participants, which can bring a new perspective over the importance of cultural factors in perceiving obesity. Some studies have shown, for example, that "African-American women appear to be more satisfied with their weight and appearance than are white women, and they are less likely to engage in unhealthy weight control practices, yet they are more likely to have high rates of obesity" (Lovejoy, 2001)
Being overweight represents a certain source of distress for those suffering from it, producing a distortion in the creation and shape of self-image and having a durable influence over self-perception and self-esteem. The studies analyzing the issue of obesity dwell onto multiple aspects, such as - the connection between overweight and psychological well-being (Hayes & Ross, 1986; Ross, 1994), the "risk factors," namely the role of culture and family over eating disorders (Howarth-Hoeppner, 2000), the social constraints in eating patterns (Maykovitch, 1978), management and therapy of obesity (Stewart, 1987)
In order to assess the way in which each patient will respond to group therapy, a few personality factors should be considered, such as - the attitude towards authority and peers, the ability and desire to reveal one's weakness towards the other members of the group etc. (Powdermaker & Frank, 1953) The importance of the group for the effectiveness of the therapeutic program consists also in the fact that there is a leader of the group, who will control and focus the discussion, encouraging the patients to express their emotions and helping them find solutions for their problems, cope with the difficult issues they encounter, develop their social skills and etc
The studies analyzing the issue of obesity dwell onto multiple aspects, such as - the connection between overweight and psychological well-being (Hayes & Ross, 1986; Ross, 1994), the "risk factors," namely the role of culture and family over eating disorders (Howarth-Hoeppner, 2000), the social constraints in eating patterns (Maykovitch, 1978), management and therapy of obesity (Stewart, 1987). The present study intends to focus on finding efficient treatment for obesity among female college students, starting from the findings of previous studies showing "that being overweight has no direct effect on depression in any social group except among the well-educated" (Ross, 1994; 63)
Being overweight represents a certain source of distress for those suffering from it, producing a distortion in the creation and shape of self-image and having a durable influence over self-perception and self-esteem. The studies analyzing the issue of obesity dwell onto multiple aspects, such as - the connection between overweight and psychological well-being (Hayes & Ross, 1986; Ross, 1994), the "risk factors," namely the role of culture and family over eating disorders (Howarth-Hoeppner, 2000), the social constraints in eating patterns (Maykovitch, 1978), management and therapy of obesity (Stewart, 1987)
al, 1970; Ferraro & Kelley-Moore, 2003). The cultural contraints brought by the normative description of the perfect woman make women associate thinnes and bodily perfection with succes, love and happiness (Wolf, 1990)
As a reader, I was surprised to find that he did so in his chapter on the brain's response to art. However, the purpose and mechanisms that he posits for a human artistic sense force him to admit that what makes humans produce art might apply also to nonhuman "artists" like the bower bird (Ramachandran, 2011: 196)
Presumably, this circuitry does not decay when gulls reach adulthood, although the pecking response can clearly be inhibited. Another major source of data that the author refers to is neural recordings from the fusiform gyrus (FFG) which has become known as the "face and place processing" area of the brain (Zeki, 1999)
I am surprised that Ramachandran does not cite more art historians and philosophers; some of them made the same claims that he does in eras long before neuroscience was even possible. Aristotle, for example, touches on ideas of repetition, rhythm, and orderliness that were first formalized by Pythagoras (Heath, 1996)
Richard Geoffroy, the Chef de Cave at Dom Perignon, believes that serving champagne in a white wine glass improves the taste of the product because flutes concentrate the fizz, but also decrease the aroma of more complex wines, "You taste the way you see. A narrow flute will narrow the taste, an ample wine glass will amplify the taste, a flat saucer will flatten the taste" (Cloake, 2012)