![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As an additional quirk, Traig’s scrupulosity did not occur in the context of general religiosity, but in that of Orthodox Judaism, a faith that she describes as fraught with craziness already. Every so often, as she tells it, a flare-up would occur and all hell would break loose. Beginning at age three, and throughout the rest of her youth and young adulthood, Traig was plagued with bouts of scrupulosity. Scrupulosity is, for lack of more sophisticated terms, religious obsessive compulsivity. The book begins with a primer of sorts on obsessive-compulsive disorder, particularly scrupulosity, Traig’s specific affliction. Somewhere in recounting the details, Traig lost me. Jennifer Traig attempts to discuss her obsessive-compulsive disorder and anorexia as they affected her and her family through the adolescent and young adult, but the book never quite makes a clear statement. Devil in the Details is the memoir of a crafty Jewish girl afflicted with a variety of mental and social issues. ![]()
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