Paradigm clash in the field of eating disorders: a critical examination of the biopsychiatric model from a sociocultural perspective

This article explores the clash between the biopsychiatric paradigm and the sociocultural paradigm. After considering their essential assumptions, it is argued that the biopsychiatric paradigm has a number of significant problems, including a misunderstanding and misrepresentation of the sociocultural perspective it purports to have minimised or circumscribed. An important aspect of this critique involves careful consideration of what is meant...