'Recovery', 'eating dys-order' and somatic practice: An auto/ethnographic exploration. (1st June 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Farrell, Bríd O'
• Is Part Of: Journal of dance & somatic practices. Volume 9:Number 1(2017)
• Page Start: 31
• Page End: 46
• Publication Date: 2017-06-01
• Subjects: Dance -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; Dance -- Sociological aspects -- Periodicals; 792.805
• DOI: 10.1386/jdsp.9.1.31_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1757-1871

Abstract

This article uses an auto/ethnographic lens to juxtapose experiences of 'eating dysorder' and 'recovery' lived in the contrasting milieu of bio-medical and somatic discourse and practice. Evocative auto/ethnography serves here as an anchor for reflections upon the question of why I experience embodied subjectivity so differently within the somatic field, and why I consider these experiences as critical events in my 'recovery process'.