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The Treatment of Obsessions (Medicine) by Stanley Rachman. Oxford University Press, 2003. Brain lock: Free yourself from obsessive-compulsive behavior: A four-step self-treatment method to change your brain chemistry by Jeffrey Schwartz and Beverly Beyette. New York: Regan Books, 1997. ISBN 0-06-098711-1. The OCD Workbook by Bruce Hyman and ...
2.3% [ 6] Obsessive–compulsive disorder ( OCD) is a mental disorder in which an individual has intrusive thoughts (an obsession) and feels the need to perform certain routines ( compulsions) repeatedly to relieve the distress caused by the obsession, to the extent where it impairs general function. [ 1][ 2][ 7] Obsessions are persistent ...
Created by Drs. Wayne Goodman and Gary Roy Geffken, the UF OCD program focuses on training and treatment of refractory obsessive–compulsive disorder. The program originated as a stand-alone clinic within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Florida and has expanded to a clinic integrated with Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and ...
Obsessive–compulsive spectrum. The obsessive–compulsive spectrum is a model of medical classification where various psychiatric, neurological and/or medical conditions are described as existing on a spectrum of conditions related to obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). [1] ". The disorders are thought to lie on a spectrum from impulsive ...
Arithmomania. Arithmomania (from Greek arithmós, "number", and maníā, "compulsion") is a mental disorder that may be seen as an expression of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). [ 1] Individuals experiencing this disorder have a strong need to count their actions or objects in their surroundings. [ 2]
The Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale ( DOCS) is a 20-item self-report instrument that assesses the severity of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) symptoms along four empirically supported theme-based dimensions: (a) contamination, (b) responsibility for harm and mistakes, (c) incompleteness/symmetry, and (d) unacceptable (taboo) thoughts ...
Eric Charbonneau/Getty Images for Max John Green is opening up about how his own lifelong battle with OCD inspired his 2017 novel, Turtles All the Way Down — and how he hopes Max’s new book-to ...
Inference-based therapy was developed in the late 1990s for treating obsessive-compulsive disorder. [3] [4] Initially, the model was developed mostly for obsessive-compulsive disorder with overt compulsions and for individuals presenting obsessive-compulsive disorder with overvalued ideas (i.e., obsessions with a bizarre content and strongly invested by the individual, such as feeling dirty ...