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.
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.
Diana Beljaars is a research fellow at the Swansea University Geography Department. Interested in culture, disability, and health, she combines human geography, medical humanities, continental philosophy, and Tourette syndrome-related neuropsychiatry. She published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers and co-edited Civic Spaces and Desire (Routledge).
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Introduction Chapter 1: Confusions: Dead ends and (un)making sense Chapter 2: Complications: Neuropsychiatric rationalisations Chapter 3: Compulsive expressions Chapter 4: Urgency: On becoming compulsive Chapter 5: Configurations: Compulsive bodies Chapter 6: Object excess: Movement in concert Chapter 7: Compulsive durations: Ecologies of stability Chapter 8: Mediations: Finding ways with compulsive life Chapter 9: A compulsive worlding of (post)humanity
