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Obsession a history /
From the Publisher: We live in an age of obsession. Not only are we hopelessly devoted to our work, strangely addicted to our favorite television shows, and desperately impassioned about our cars, we admire obsession in others: we demand that lovers be infatuated with one another in films, we respo...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2008.
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v, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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| Online Access: | Publisher description Table of contents only |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Obsession : |b a history / |c Lennard J. Davis. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Chicago : |b University of Chicago Press, |c 2008. | |
| 300 | |a v, 290 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 24 cm. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-276) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Origins of obsession -- The emergence of obsession -- Specialization as monomania -- Never done: compulsive writing, graphomania, bibliomania -- Freud and obsession as the gateway to psychoanalysis -- Obsessive sex and love -- Obsession and visual art -- OCD: now and forever -- Conclusion: So what? So what? So what? So what? and other obsessive thoughts. | |
| 520 | |a From the Publisher: We live in an age of obsession. Not only are we hopelessly devoted to our work, strangely addicted to our favorite television shows, and desperately impassioned about our cars, we admire obsession in others: we demand that lovers be infatuated with one another in films, we respond to the passion of single-minded musicians, we cheer on driven athletes. To be obsessive is to be American; to be obsessive is to be modern. But obsession is not only a phenomenon of modern existence: it is a medical category-both a pathology and a goal. Behind this paradox lies a fascinating history, which Lennard Davis tells in Obsession. Beginning with the roots of the disease in demonic possession and its secular successors, Davis traces the evolution of obsessive behavior from a social and religious fact of life into a medical and psychiatric problem. From obsessive aspects of professional specialization to obsessive sex and nymphomania, no variety of obsession eludes Davis's graceful analysis. Obsession also considers the clinical definition of the condition: Davis investigates the huge increase (estimates suggest up to 600-fold) in diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder over the past thirty years. Surveying the many ways in which doctors today treat OCD, he points out the limitations of and contradictions within the biological definitions of the disease. Impassioned, witty, and learned, Obsession is for anyone-from compulsive hand washers to professional psychologists-who has been fascinated by, struggled with, or cultivated obsession. | ||
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