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Compulsive Body Spaces [audiobook]

Diana Beljaars

Compulsive Body Spaces (Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity)

Swansea University Author: Diana Beljaars

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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 circu...

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Published in: Compulsive Body Spaces (Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity)
Published: Swansea Self-published (text publisher: Routledge) 2025
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description 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 new insights to complement neuroscientific, psychiatric and psychological knowledge.Focusing on the sensory, material, and social environment of the body during compulsive acts, the book establishes how 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 patient emancipation in medical research, neurodiversity-aligned inquiry, 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 groundbreaking spatial conceptualisation of wellbeing.Considering the compulsive capacities of a broader humanity, Compulsive Body Spaces highlights the compulsive dimension in bodily spatiality, which underpins core theories of human life as embodied and enacted.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. People with Tourette's, OCD, or anyone who has experienced compulsive tendencies will relate to many of the compulsions discussed in the book. Beljaars' gentle explorations will help reflections on these experiences in new and meaningful ways.
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