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    Introduction to Family, Peers, and Carers

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    Social factors play a central role in eating disorders and can contribute to the predisposition, maintenance, or recovery from an eating disorder (Schmidt & Treasure, 2006; Treasure et al., 2020). In this part there are a collection of chapters that examine the role of social factors across the life course. These range from the individual through to the global perspective

    Every mistake is a treasure: Lessons learned from the TRIANGLE trial for anorexia nervosa

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    Background Despite several decades of treatment research for anorexia nervosa (AN), many of the same questions remain: how to boost enrollment, engage participants, prevent attrition, and meet the needs of a diverse patient population within the rigorous framework of a randomized controlled trial (RCT).Methods In this research forum, we highlight some of the challenges and opportunities observed over the course of TRIANGLE, the largest RCT for severe AN treatment in the UK to date. We discuss strategies for addressing common challenges and avoiding common pitfalls and propose solutions to future researchers seeking to conduct treatment research in AN.Results Our experience underscores the value of involving people with lived experience at every stage of intervention research. We offer additional recommendations for treatment researchers, including, (1) early qualitative research to identify patient barriers and obstacles, (2) clear, systematic collaboration with clinical sites for patient recruitment and passive data collection, (3) careful consideration of assessment metrics, including repeated measurement of quality of life, (4) adopting a flexible, patient-centered approach to clinical trial research, and (5) considering the unique needs and obstacles that might impact carer participation in research and their ability to provide support to their loved ones.Discussion We hope that these lessons learned will prove fruitful for the next generation of researchers embarking on treatment research for AN.Public Significance Using the TRIANGLE trial as an illustrative case study, we highlight the value of lived experience and codesign for developing and testing interventions for AN. We offer several lessons learned over the course of the trial, pertaining to trial enrollment, retention and engagement, measurement of outcomes, and research adaptations for real-world settings, and hope that these recommendations facilitate future treatment research for AN

    Stress hormones and eating disorders

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    Aims: The aim of this paper is to emphasize the role of stress processes in the aetiology of eating disorders. Methods: We have examined the literature for evidence that people with eating disorders might exhibit markers of stress and show signs of the “maltreated ecophenotype”. Results: Early adversity is more common among people with binge eating behaviours. The secondary effects of malnutrition, which are mostly marked in anorexia nervosa, may be an added stressor that could also contribute to the stress related phenotype. People with eating disorders have anomalies in brain structure, reward and punishment sensitivity, and the balance between HPA and SMA function. These may be potential targets for treatment

    Review of Tolkien, J.R.R., trans; ed. Christopher Tolkien. Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.

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    Review of Tolkien's Beowulf translation focuses on its relation to his other works rather than the translation per se

    Psyche in New York: The Devil Wears Prada Updates the Myth

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    The Psyche and Cupid story is a central myth of female maturation, among its other meanings. At its core, it is a story of a powerful older woman, a mother-figure, controlling a younger woman’s path to maturity, seemingly blocking her way by imposing impossible tasks, but through these tasks teaching her what she needs to learn to become an adult. In the Greek myth, the marker of maturity is full and socially sanctioned union with the god/husband; in the movie The Devil Wears Prada, the marker becomes a job that both “pays the rent” and that the young woman can hold with integrity and independence. I will also look at such diverse sources as the Tam Lin legend, Hayao Miyazake’s Spirited Away, C.S. Lewis’s retelling of the Psyche myth in Till We Have Faces, and the movie Julie & Julia as variants of the underlying “mother”/maiden conflict.This is the Version of Record (VoR) of the article originally published in Mythlore (2012). Mythlore is available in the electronic database Expanded Academic ASAP.Peer reviewe

    [Review of] Fastitocalon: Studies in Fantasticism Ancient to Modern 4.1/2, editor in chief Thomas Honegger and Fanfan Chen; and Tolkien Studies XI, editors Michael D.C. Drout, Verlyn Flieger, and David Bratman.

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    Review of special issue of Fastitocalon and the eleventh issue of Tolkien Studies.This is the Version of Record (VoR) of the article originally published in Mythlore (2015). Mythlore is available in the electronic database Expanded Academic ASAP

    Review of The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium, ed. Chris Vaccaro

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    Review of edited essay collection. Considers each item in the collection individually and the collection as a whole.This is the Version of Record (VoR) of the article originally published in Mythlore (2014). Mythlore is available in the electronic database Expanded Academic ASAP

    World Clothing and Fashion: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Social Influence

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