Chapter 10. Framing the onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
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Olivia Knapton
Abstract
Despite quantitative research showing differences between obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) across genders, little research has qualitatively explored women’s experiences of the disorder. This chapter combines image schemas with illness narrative analysis to explore how women with OCD link the onset of the disorder to traumatic changes in their bodies that are experienced as a crisis. It is argued that the bodily changes disrupt the image schemas that provide stable conceptualisations of the body. The disintegration of the stable body leads to conceptualisations of OCD that, to various degrees, frame OCD as an attempt to regain control over the changed body. Thus, the women make sense of OCD onset by connecting it to personal crises and relationships within specific sociocultural contexts.
Abstract
Despite quantitative research showing differences between obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) across genders, little research has qualitatively explored women’s experiences of the disorder. This chapter combines image schemas with illness narrative analysis to explore how women with OCD link the onset of the disorder to traumatic changes in their bodies that are experienced as a crisis. It is argued that the bodily changes disrupt the image schemas that provide stable conceptualisations of the body. The disintegration of the stable body leads to conceptualisations of OCD that, to various degrees, frame OCD as an attempt to regain control over the changed body. Thus, the women make sense of OCD onset by connecting it to personal crises and relationships within specific sociocultural contexts.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Notes on Contributors vii
- Introduction 1
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Part I. Investigating the language of financial and organisational crisis
- Chapter 1. Crisis Marketing through conceptual ontology in metaphor in financial reporting 23
- Chapter 2. From economic crisis to austerity policies through conceptual metaphor 51
- Chapter 3. Responding to organisational misbehaviour 87
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Part II. Understanding discourses of political conflicts
- Chapter 4. Turning the heart into a neighbour 111
- Chapter 5. “Today, the long Arab winter has begun to thaw” 137
- Chapter 6. Metaphors for protest 169
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Part III. Studying personal crisis in psychotherapy and narrative
- Chapter 7. The ‘transformative’ power of metaphor 199
- Chapter 8. Co-constructing ‘crisis’ with metaphor 231
- Chapter 9. Narrative modulation in the storytelling of breast cancer survivors’ transitional experiences 255
- Chapter 10. Framing the onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) 281
- Index 305
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Notes on Contributors vii
- Introduction 1
-
Part I. Investigating the language of financial and organisational crisis
- Chapter 1. Crisis Marketing through conceptual ontology in metaphor in financial reporting 23
- Chapter 2. From economic crisis to austerity policies through conceptual metaphor 51
- Chapter 3. Responding to organisational misbehaviour 87
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Part II. Understanding discourses of political conflicts
- Chapter 4. Turning the heart into a neighbour 111
- Chapter 5. “Today, the long Arab winter has begun to thaw” 137
- Chapter 6. Metaphors for protest 169
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Part III. Studying personal crisis in psychotherapy and narrative
- Chapter 7. The ‘transformative’ power of metaphor 199
- Chapter 8. Co-constructing ‘crisis’ with metaphor 231
- Chapter 9. Narrative modulation in the storytelling of breast cancer survivors’ transitional experiences 255
- Chapter 10. Framing the onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) 281
- Index 305
