An Accounting Practice for Being Eating Disorder: The Self Who Is Appeared in an Interview as Interaction

Abstract

This paper describes how an eating disorder patient presents herself while using the expert/lay knowledge properly in an interview. The approach focusing on narratives treats expert/lay knowledge as the same status. It is because the lay knowledge has been seen as being inferior to the expert one by the medical power. However, in the practices of sick narrative or toujisya-kenkyu, people narrate own experiences or position his/her identity using the expert/lay knowledge properly. In other words, before the researcher sets the range of expert/lay knowledge, people do such distinction. This paper focuses on this point and describes how people use the expert/lay knowledge properly in the presenting him/herself. By doing so, this paper has shown a possibility of different understanding from the understanding that the previous research on suppression of experience knowledge by expertise has shown.