@inbook{41c931235cea45cf827ff87cf6d572d8,
title = "Framing the onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): Women's experiences of changes in the body",
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.",
keywords = "Discourse, Embodiment, Illness narratives, Image schemas, Obsessive-compulsive disorder, OCD, Onset, Qualitative, Traumatic events, Women",
author = "Olivia Knapton",
year = "2020",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1075/dapsac.87.10kna",
language = "English",
series = "Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture",
publisher = "John Benjamins Publishing Company",
pages = "281--304",
editor = "Mimi Huang and Lise-Lotte Holmgreen",
booktitle = "The Language of Crisis. Metaphors, frames and discourses",
}