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“All Real Living Is Meeting”: Brent Robbins on Love, Death, and the Possibilities of Psychology

Mad in America

But we know from research that one of the strongest drivers of eating disorders is the thin ideal a cultural standard that equates female attractiveness with thinness. It gives us a way to evaluate success and failure, a structure for self-esteem. But for Becker, this isnt just about identity its about death anxiety.