Olivia Knapton
List of John Benjamins publications in which Olivia Knapton is involved.
Articles
2020 Negotiating embodied space in anxiety narratives Metaphor in Mental Healthcare, Tay, Dennis (ed.), pp. 233–252 | Article
In recent years, studies from social/cultural geography and social psychology have shown the importance of the subjective experience of space in anxiety disorders. This study investigates how lived space in anxiety is discursively negotiated in interactional narratives, with a focus on the… read more
2020 Chapter 10. Framing the onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): Women’s experiences of changes in the body The Language of Crisis: Metaphors, frames and discourses, Huang, Mimi and Lise-Lotte Holmgreen (eds.), pp. 281–304 | Chapter
Despite quantitative research showing differences between obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) across genders, little research has qualitatively explored women’s experiences of the disorder. This chapter combines image schemas with illness narrative analysis to explore how women with OCD link the… read more

