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Compulsive Body Spaces (Hardcover)
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Compulsive Body Spaces (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity
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Compulsive Body Spaces presents a spatial understanding of
compulsion. Providing a compelling account of the lives of 15
people with Tourette syndrome, it demystifies the seemingly
irrational, purposeless and meaningless character of this
behaviour. It demonstrates how attending to the spatial
circumstances under which compulsive acts, like touching, ordering,
and aligning objects take place, can produce valuable novel
insights that complement neuroscientific, psychiatric or
psychological knowledge. By paying attention to the sensory,
material, and social environment of the body during its performance
of compulsive acts, the book establishes the ways in which
configurations of bodies, objects, and spaces disrupt people's
lives or allow them to thrive. This collaborative, qualitative
study that is based on in-depth interviews, observations, and
mobile eye-tracking places the book at the forefront of a new wave
of patient emancipation in medical research, and gives rise to a
renewed consideration of what empathetic, context-sensitive care
may look like in the 21st century. In turn, its insights give rise
to a ground breaking spatial conceptualisation of wellbeing.
Considering the compulsive capacities of a broader humanity,
Compulsive Body Spaces highlights the compulsive dimension in
bodily spatiality, which underpins the very core theories of human
life as embodied and performed. This book will be of interest to
students and scholars in science and technology studies, human
geography, sociology, health and social care, medical humanities,
continental philosophy and disability studies.
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