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Chasing Tourette's: Time, Freedom, and the Missing Self Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt

Chasing Tourette's: Time, Freedom, and the Missing Self By Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt

Chasing Tourette's: Time, Freedom, and the Missing Self by Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt


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This book offers a philosophical perspective on contemporary Tourette Syndrome scholarship, a field which has exploded over the last thirty years.

Chasing Tourette's: Time, Freedom, and the Missing Self Summary

Chasing Tourette's: Time, Freedom, and the Missing Self by Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt

This book offers a philosophical perspective on contemporary Tourette Syndrome scholarship, a field which has exploded over the last thirty years. Despite intense research efforts on this common neurodevelopmental condition in the age of the brain sciences, the syndrome's causes and potential cures remain intriguingly elusive. How does this lack of progress relate to the tacitly operating philosophical concepts that shape our current thinking about Tourette Syndrome? This book foregrounds these tacit concepts and shows how they relate to big topics in philosophy such as time, volition, and the self. By tracing how these topics relate to current research on Tourette's, it invites us to re-think our approach to research and care. Such re-thinking is urgently needed: individuals and families living with Tourette Syndrome remain under-serviced as pharmacological and behavioural therapies provide relief for some but not all who need support. This book highlights what questions we ask and do not ask in contemporary scholarship, thereby surfacing invisible constraints and opportunities in the field. It is of interest to scholars, health professionals, students, and affected families who want to better understand this burgeoning field of research with its conceptual controversies, approaches to aetiology, and directions for new research and improved clinical care.

About Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt

With an MA in Philosophy and English Philology, as well as a PhD in History, Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt's earlier publications have spanned such diverse topics as ancient Greek philosophy, Enlightenment women's political thought, and colonial mission history. Following a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Philosophy at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, Lisa left academia and founded her own coaching and consultancy firm. She recently returned to academic research as an Honorary Fellow at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, where she explores the existential dimensions of living with tic disorders and Tourette Syndrome by drawing on approaches ranging from philosophical phenomenology and phenomenological psychiatry to contemporary enactivist thought.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Clock Time and Tic Nosology.- Chapter 3. Volition in the Ticcing Brain.- Chapter 4. Freedom in a Tourettic World.- Chapter 5. Agency and Ownership in Tic Disorders.- Chapter 6. Tics as Intentional Actions: A Revised Taxonomy.- Chapter 7. On Reflexes and Stimuli: Tics as Nonactions.- Chapter 8. 'No ill will': Ticcing on Moral Grounds.- Chapter 9. Conclusion: Beyond Causes and Cures.

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NPB9783031191039
9783031191039
303119103X
Chasing Tourette's: Time, Freedom, and the Missing Self by Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt
New
Hardback
Springer International Publishing AG
2023-02-08
262
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