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

文学小说和医学人文学科最近都经历了对“心理健康小说”的兴趣激增，但强迫症在这一领域的代表还很少。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而开辟了新的天地。创作部分是一部实验性小说，描绘了一段进入这种状况的极端之旅，并探索了集体异议在重建身份中的作用。这篇批判性的论文探索了抵抗强迫症症状的文化和档案中的治疗方法，以及退化院(约克郡)目前的做法。

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).