Title:
Freedom from obsessive-compulsive disorder : a personalized recovery program for living with uncertainty
Author:
ISBN:
9780425273890
Edition:
Updated Berkley trade paperback edition.
Physical Description:
xvi, 366 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Uncertainty: the core of OCD -- Causes of OCD: biology and learning, not biology vs. learning -- Obsessions and compulsions: what sufferers fear and what sufferers do -- Understanding the role of medication -- Accepting uncertainty: your first step -- Exposure and response prevention: the B in cognitive behavioral therapy -- Tools to counter the voice of OCD: the C in cognitive behavioral therapy -- Designing your recovery program -- Contamination: the obsession that spreads -- Checking: the pervasive compulsion -- Ordering, symmetry, counting, and movement: rituals of perfection and magic -- Primary mental obsessions: it really is all in your mind -- Selected obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders: OCD problems with another name -- Building supports for recovery: beyond exposure and response prevention -- In recovery for life.
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Summary:
Draws on the author's work at the Philadelphia Anxiety and Agoraphobia Treatment Center to outline a self-guided program that combines multiple treatment methods and focuses on relapse prevention and recovery.
