Literary and Linguistic Construction of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - No Ordinary Doubt

Informationen zum Autor Patricia Friedrich is Associate Professor at Arizona State University, USA. She teaches and conducts research on the social/political environments where linguistic expression occurs. Her works dwells on the intersection of power, language, culture and peace. She has published dozens of articles in periodicals, a single-authored book, and two collections for which she served as editor. She is also a published author of literary fiction. Klappentext This book presents a literary and linguistic reading of obsessive-compulsive disorder to argue that medical understandings of disability need their social, political, literary and linguistic counterparts, especially if we aspire to create a more inclusive, self-reflective society. Zusammenfassung This book presents a literary and linguistic reading of obsessive-compulsive disorder to argue that medical understandings of disability need their social! political! literary and linguistic counterparts! especially if we aspire to create a more inclusive! self-reflective society. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Friedrich
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.09.2015
• EAN: 9781137493477
• ISBN: 978-1-137-49347-7
• No. of pages: 221
• Series: Literary Disability Studies; Literary Disability Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; B, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Discourse Analysis, Clinical psychology, Film History, Literary theory, Research Methods in Language and Linguistics, Culture—Study and teaching, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Film and TV History, Motion pictures—History, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics