“This book is highly original. It offers a holistic analysis of the corporeal and experiential fact of compulsive behaviour that’s launched from the ‘insider’ perspective. While focused on Tourette’s syndrome, it has wider relevance to the study of people whose well-being is necessarily shaped by their immediate environment. The book is among the first to elucidate compulsive behaviour in its total bodily and mental context. This data offers strong insights into the affective dimensions of TS – it is rich and paints a clear and convincing picture, aided by the author’s familial experience of TS. I believe the book offers a model of empathic patient-focused research that has implications for future research and patient care.” —Professor Noel Castree, University of Manchester

“This book makes a very clearly original contribution, by developing a systematic geographic and posthumanist approach to compulsive acts, such as those expressed by people living with Tourette’s Disorder. It is far-reaching in its ambition, as it considers what difference it makes to our understanding of compulsivity when we shift the focus from the nervous system and biological body to a greater understanding of the body’s relationship to the environment (broadly conceived). It is emphatically rigorous, both in the care that it takes with framing and the words used to discuss compulsive conditions, and in terms of the original methodological approach that combines in-depth interviews with participants and mobile-eye tracking methods (extremely innovative in the discipline). This is a considerable achievement.” —Dr Angharad Closs-Stephens, Swansea University

“This book is outstandingly novel in terms of its paradigm-setting ambitions and its development of concepts, and it is likely to become a primary point of reference for the field, and a formative influence on the development of its intellectual agenda.” —Professor Marcus Doel, Swansea University