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Title

The literary and linguistic construction of obsessive-compulsive disorder : no ordinary doubt / Patricia Friedrich.

Author

Friedrich, Patricia

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Description

xii, 209 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"What does it mean to live with obsessive-compulsive disorder in a time when the word "obsession" has become synonymous with "driven", "focused" or "infatuated"? This book presents a literary and linguistic reading of obsessive-compulsive disorder, both in its contemporary form and its historical antecedent, to argue that medical understandings of disability need their social, political, literary and linguistic counterparts, especially if we aspire to create a more inclusive society. The chapters visit memoirs, historical texts, novels and movies to demonstrate how each of these manifestations becomes a part of the "story" of OCD. In that sense, we construct reality based on the discourses that are available to us, and the discourses of OCD are yet to encompass all of its diversity and complexity"--

Series Statement

Literary disability series

Subject

• Obsessive-compulsive disorder
• Neuroses in literature
• Discourse analysis, Literary
• Psycholinguistics
• Language and culture
• Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) > Psychological aspects
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder in literature
• LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
• LITERARY CRITICISM / General
• LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
• PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
• PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Illness
• Discourse analysis, Literary
• Language and culture
• Psycholinguistics
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary
• Literature: history & criticism
• linguistics
• Literary studies: from c 1900
• Literary studies: general
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
• Linguistics
• Psychiatry in Literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- List of illustrationsPreface Acknowledgements1. OCD Inside Out: The Forging of Disorder2. Recurrent Doubt: A Brief Story of OCD Through its Literary Texts3. Just for Fun: The Misappropriation of OCD for Humor and the Role of Critical Disciplines in Claiming it Back4. Someone Else's Words: OCD, Language and Discourse Power5. Me and my OCD: Memoirs and the Challenges of Self Representation6. Not 'Just' a Story: Literary Invention, Innovation, and OCD 7. Bioconcerns, OCD Fears, and Other Worrisome Things: Healing Through NarrativeBibliographyIndex.

ISBN

• 9781137493477 (hardback)
• 113749347X (hardback)

LCCN

^^2015015595

OCLC

• 909321067
• SCSB-11291780

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library