‘A Question of Weight (Historical)’, the first episode of … The series “The dilemma of (im)perfect bodies” is the chapter for which Romero received the prize during the second edition of these awards, organized by the College Foundation. The jury recognized “the technical quality of the episode, the social relevance of the subject addressed and its ability to integrate psychology with other disciplines, offering a multidisciplinary analysis of problems of perception and body image”.
The awards and diploma ceremony took place last Wednesday, December 10, at the College of Psychology in Madrid. A gala during which prizes were also awarded for technological innovation, diversity, fairness and equality in psychology, as well as the best Psychology podcast for psychologists.
As the Foundation points out, the Psychology Podcast Awards seek to “recognize sound productions which disseminate, make visible and promote psychology as a scientific and professional discipline. They are aimed at journalists, media and psychology professionals who, through rigorous, accessible and innovative content, contribute to bringing this science closer to society”.
The search for bodily perfection, an in-depth examination
“The dilemma of (im)perfect bodies” is a podcast composed of 4 episodes, directed, scripted and narrated by María Romero, in which the aesthetic obsessions that have occupied and worried human beings for centuries are analyzed, and how we continue to strive to fit into an aesthetic canon that is very difficult to achieve, by subjecting our bodies to all types of diets and treatments.
In “A Question of Weight (Historical)”, Romero searches for the origin of our obsession with thinness practically since human beings existed, explaining why we have not managed to free ourselves from the yoke that our weight imposes on us, and he does so from a very recent starting point: the appearance of weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, which in a few months have managed to destroy a good part of the discourse of acceptance of the diversity of bodies, beyond shapes and sizes, and which arouses a strong influence. resurgence. the search for thinness as the ultimate goal of beauty and social acceptance of our body image.
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