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New Insights into the Prevention and Treatment of Bulimia Nervosa
Bulimia nervosa and eating disorders are common cause of distress and health related burden for young women and men. Despite major advances over the past three decades many patients come late to treatment and find that the therapy is incompletely addressed to the complex psychopathology and co-morbidities of the illness. The present book brings timely and contemporary understandings of bulimia nervosa to aid in current thinking regarding prevention and treatment. It will be read by therapists interested in enhancing their current approaches and those interested in earlier and more effective prevention and closing the gap between illness onset and accessing treatment. They will find practical guidance but also new ideas and ways of thinking about bulimia nervosa and the illness experience in this book.
Impact of Digitalization on Modern Visual Media
Digitalization has transformed modern visual media, reshaping how content is created, distributed, and consumed. From HD streaming and immersive virtual reality to AI-generated visuals, digital technologies have expanded the boundaries of storytelling and audience engagement. This evolution has democratized media production, enabling creators from diverse backgrounds to share their visions while challenging traditional industry structures. As visual media continues to evolve within an increasingly connected digital ecosystem, its societal, cultural, and creative impacts are becoming more dynamic and far-reaching than ever before. Impact of Digitalization on Modern Visual Media explores the profound transformations brought about by digital technologies in the media ecosystem. This book illuminates how traditional media tools integrate with digital platforms, how media content diversifies and becomes personalized, and how audiences assume a more interactive role. Covering topics such as media, digitalization, and streaming platforms, this book is an excellent resource for academics, researchers, and professionals working in media
Culture-Bound Syndromes in Popular Culture
This volume explores culture-bound syndromes, defined as a pattern of symptoms (mental, physical, and/or relational) experienced only by members of a specific cultural group and recognized as a disorder by members of those groups, and their coverage in popular culture. Encompassing a wide range of popular culture genres and mediums – from film and TV to literature, graphic novels, and anime – the chapters offer a dynamic mix of approaches to analyze how popular culture has engaged with specific culture-bound syndromes such as hwabyung, hikikomori, taijin kyofusho, zou huo ru mo, sati, amok, Cuban hysteria, voodoo death, and others. Spanning a global and interdisciplinary remit, this first-of-its-kind anthology will allow scholars and students of popular culture, media and film studies, comparative literature, medical humanities, cultural psychiatry, and philosophy to explore simultaneously a diversity of popular cultures and culturally rooted mental health disorders.
Streaming Wars
Streaming broadcasters have given consumers all the content they could ever want. But at what cost? In Streaming Wars, journalist Charlotte Henry explores the seismic shifts behind the rise of platforms like Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+, Spotify, Amazon Prime, Paramount and more. From Hollywood's 2023 strikes to the race for sports rights, the growth of ad-supported tiers and the decline of traditional TV, she reveals how streaming has disrupted not only media economics, but also the power structures that define what gets made and who gets seen. As AI, rebundling and fierce competition drive a new phase in the streaming era, Streaming Wars offers a sharp, accessible look at what's next for companies, creators and audiences alike. Whether you're a casual viewer or a media professional, Streaming Wars is your essential guide to the business battles transforming entertainment.
The Routledge Companion to Media Audiences
The Routledge Companion to Media Audiences captures the ways in which audiences and audience researchers are adapting to emerging social, cultural, market, technical and environmental conditions. Bringing together 40 original essays, this anthology explores how our constantly changing encounters with media are complex, contradictory and increasingly commercialized in the modern world. Each specially commissioned chapter by both early-career and experienced international scholars surveys new conceptualizations and constitutions of audiences, and assesses key issues, themes and developments within the field. As such, this companion cements itself as an indispensable guide for students and researchers who seek a comprehensive overview and source of inspiration for a diverse range of topics in media audiences. The Routledge Companion to Media Audiences is an accessible, landmark tool which enhances our understanding of how media is utilized through advanced empirical research and methodological enquiry. It is a must-read for media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, humanities and social science scholars and students.
Body Image in Eating Disorders
Body Image in Eating Disorders explores issues relating to the prevention, clinical diagnosis, and psychological treatment of distortions of body image in eating disorders. It presents a multifactorial model of indicators for diagnosis and treatment, considering psychological, sociocultural, and family indicators. Based on original empirical research with women and girls suffering from eating disorders, the book draws attention to limitations and dilemmas related to psychological diagnosis and treatment of people with eating disorders including anorexia readiness syndrome, bulimia, and bigorexia. The book proposes an integrative psychodynamic approach to the diagnosis and treatment of body i...
