Abstract
This letter identifies the potential of qualitative eating disorder research to work within a transformative paradigm that naturalizes the state of living with an eating disorder. The number of qualitative research publications with persons living with eating disorders have increased, however, a substantive proportion of this qualitative research follows traditional research paradigms that are built upon the assumption that eating disorders signify a personal deficit. Transformative qualitative eating disorder research has potential to include those living with eating disorders in all stages of the research process to ensure that research leads to the de-stigmatization of eating disorders promoting health, wellbeing, and quality of life for persons living with eating disorders.
Highlights
Main text In recent years there has been an increase in qualitative eating disorder research [1] which explores the experiences of persons living with eating disorders
Much of this qualitative research has been grounded in traditional research paradigms, and lack critical and emancipatory strategies, including discourse and discursive analyses, which may have transformative implications for bettering the lives of persons living with eating disorders
Seeking to naturalize persons living with eating disorders: destigmatizing coping, allowing autonomy and selfdetermination, and promoting health and well-being with or without eating disorder “recovery.”
Summary
Main text In recent years there has been an increase in qualitative eating disorder research [1] which explores the experiences of persons living with eating disorders. Much of this qualitative research has been grounded in traditional research paradigms, and lack critical and emancipatory strategies, including discourse and discursive analyses, which may have transformative implications for bettering the lives of persons living with eating disorders. Qualitative research, as research in natural settings, should seek to naturalize the state of living with an eating disorder, rather than using research to legitimize disparate treatment.
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