About
This Hunger Artist has nothing to do with the artistry of not-eating—after all, there is no such thing. It’s concerned with the complex art and science involved in learning to listen, and respond, to your many hungers again after an eating disorder has made you forget how. This site collects together all my work on…
Research
Research news My research approaches eating disorders from two angles. The first is a behavioural, dynamical-systems perspective. The latest on this was published in July 2020 in Frontiers in Psychology: Troscianko, E.T., and Leon, M. (2020). Treating eating: A dynamical systems theory of eating disorders. [open-access here] This is my fullest attempt so far to articulate…
Psychology Today blog
Since 2009, when the weight-restoration phase of my recovery from anorexia was complete, but psychologically there was a lot left to do, I’ve written a blog about eating disorders—also called A Hunger Artist—for the US website Psychology Today. In the beginning, writing the blog was a personally therapeutic thing for me to do: it gave…
A Hunger Artist 