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CIBO ERGO SUM: FEEDING CHOICES, UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE
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Laura Balzani & Maria Giulia Panetta
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Institue of Constructivist Psychology, Padua, Italy |
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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.
Key
words:
Food,
diet.
eating behaviours, eating disorders, elaborative choice.
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About the authors
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 Laura Balzani:
Psychologist and psychotherapist,
learning-teacher at Institute of Constructivist
Psychology in Padua. She works in a clinical equipe for eating disorders and
obesity and as a sexuologist. Her research interests focus on the relationship
with food and body, sexuality, and psychotherapy training. She is also
interested in playing an instrument as a therapeutic tool.
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Contact: balzani.laura@gmail.com
 Maria Giulia Panetta: Psychologist
and psychotherapist
in training, she is attending her last year in the Four-Year Course of
Specialization in Psychotherapy at the Institute of Constructivist
Psychology in Padua. Extremely curious about everything related to
constructivism, she is actually interested in feeding choices and eating
behaviors, and in sports psychology from a constructivist perspective, with
particular reference
to Rrgby and the rugby players. Her expertise
with websites has orientated her interests also in the processes channelized
by internet-mediated interactions and online chatrooms read through the PCP
lenses.
Contact: mariagiulia.panetta@gmail.com
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Balzani, L., Panetta, M.
G. (2017). Cibo ergo sum:
feeding choices: Understandng people. Personal
Construt Theory & Practice, 14, 5-14
(Retrieved from http://www.pcp-net.org/journal/pctp17/balzani17.pdf)
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