• ARTICLES, Special Section, XIIIth Biennial Conference of the EPCA - 2016

Cibo ergo sum: feeding choices, understanding people

Balzani, L., Panetta, M. G.

Keywords:
Food, diet, eating behaviours, eating disorders, elaborative choice

Abstract:
Food is fuel, a source of pleasure, a chance to socialise or express affection. It is also a fundamental part of our culture. However, eating, selecting certain foods, fasting, dieting, or indeed not dieting are not necessarily a habit, a fad or Eating Disorder. Personal Construct Psychology can offer ways to understand how people actively deal with food and provide ideas for managing situations of distress expressed through food. Focussing our attention on the person and reading eating behaviors as elaborative choices are the challenges we wish to develop in this work.