Cuerpo vivido e identidad narrativa en mujeres diagnosticadas con trastornos de la conducta alimentaria1

Women diagnosed with anorexia-bulimia adopt the social model of beauty and attractiveness. They desire a competent body as a means of being successful, and therefore associate it with a thin body; the body and the “other” are the two main horizons in the identity construction of these women, the common thread is to live in order to accomplish a body and to show it. The possibilities of recovery do not simply involve the young woman eating and accepting her body, but rather prompting her to question the model of competent body by means of a narrative exercise that leads her to a new identity construction.