Roberto Olivardia
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first heard May 2020
last heard Aug 2024
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And and that just transpired into a whole uh clinical and research interest of mine.
Sure.
So when from there and and going into graduate school, um my uh the c one of the co-authors, Harrison Pope, who's a psychiatrist at McLean Hospital, which is a psychiatric hospital in in the Boston area, and where I did all of my clinical training.
And Dr.
Pope wa basically was a mentor when I was an undergraduate.
I had contacted him because he had written a paper about uh men
And eating disorders, and it just started this great collaboration and relationship.
And we started doing a lot of other research on looking at men with eating disorders, men who are weightlifters and bodybuilders who are really big and muscular, but they see themselves as too small, something that we first called bigorexia, but now is called muscle dysmorphia.
Um, and so we had all this collection of studies and
we thought, you know, we should put this in a book and kind of put this out there in the public domain and um as opposed to just the the scientific, you know, clinical community
And so we wanted a title that sort of captured all the different manifestations because we didn't just talk about eating disorders.
We talked about steroid use, we talked about cosmetic surgery in men, we talked about media imagery that's geared towards boys and teen boys.
And so we thought, well, what's the kind of ideal body?
And Adonis is a Greek mythological character, and he represents
Represented, he was half man, half god, and he represented the ideal and masculine beauty.
So he was the envy of all the men, he was the object of desire for all the women.
And we thought that'd be a catchy name.
It's not a clinical term, Adonis Complex, but we thought it would be an interesting way of capturing this pursuit of the ideal body that we um that was captured.
In a lot of these studies that we see with boys and men.
And then the complex being this sort of insecurity and this dissatisfaction that a lot of men and boys carry around that people don't realize.
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