Looking at obsessive compulsive disorder: From arbitrariness of diagnosis to roles of recovering patient, the use of creative nonfiction in research
Louise Tam attended PsychOUT: A Conference for Organizing Resistance Against Psychiatry in May 2010 to present an autoethnographic study she calls, “Class aspiration, diaspora and dis-ease with the ‘neurasthenic’ condition: Feminist sense-making through an autoethnography of OCD discourse.” Louise explored her own experiences from a period of crisis in 2008, addressing questions about definitions of madness and a range of mediators involved in what is labeled “obsessive compulsive disorder.”
We speak with Louise Tam about her autoethnographic research.
