Obsession
Subtitle: A History
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago, USA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226137797
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Obsessive-compulsive disorder; Compulsive behavior; History, modern
First sentence: When I was around six or seven, I began to have thoughts about death and dying that I couldn't push out of my mind.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Obsession in Our Time; label: 1
title: Origins of Obsession; label: 2
title: The Emergence of Obsession; label: 3
title: Specialization as Monomania; label: 4
title: Never Done: Compulsive Writing, Graphomania, Bibliomania; label: 5
title: Freud and Obsession as the Gateway to Psychoanalysis; label: 6
title: Obsessive Sex and Love; label: 7
title: Obsession and Visual Art; label: 8
title: OCD: Now and Forever; label: 9
title: Conclusion: So What? So What? So What? So What? and Other Obsessive Thoughts; title: Acknowledgments; title: Notes; title: Index