Misrule: A Creative-Critical Study of History, Place and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

文学小说和医学人文学科都经历了最近对“心理健康小说”的兴趣激增，但强迫症在这一领域的代表性不足。我的基于实践的项目通过询问对地点，历史和强迫症之间相互作用的理解来开辟新天地。创作部分是一部实验小说，描绘了一段进入病情极限的旅程，并探索了集体异议在重建身份中的作用。批判性论文探讨文化的阻力对强迫症的症状和治疗的档案和目前的做法撤退设施（约克）。

Literary fiction and the medical humanities have both experienced a recent surge of interest in the 'mental health novel', but Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is underrepresented within this field. My practice-based project breaks new ground by interrogating understandings of the interplay between place, history and OCD. The creative component is an experimental novel charting a journey into the condition's extremities and exploring the role of collective dissent in rebuilding identity. The critical thesis explores cultures of resistance against OCD symptoms and treatment in the archives and present practice of the Retreat facility (York).