‘Ticced Off’ : An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Of The Experience Of Tourette’s Syndrome
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https://doi.org/10.65828/gt71he14Keywords:
Heidegger, phenomenology, Tourette’s Syndrome, Being-in-the-WorldAbstract
Using the phenomenology of Martin Heidegger, and his notions of ‘ontological difference’, ‘being-in-the-world’, ‘present-at’ and ‘ready-to-hand’ I will give an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experience of Tourette’s Syndrome (TS). I will argue for a new relational-mode that I have called the ‘excessive present-at-hand’ that may also be a feature of other psychopathologies, and how treatment maybe re-conceptualised through the ‘ready-to-hand’ mode.
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