Obsessional experience and compulsive behaviour

Academic Press

1985

xvi, 246 p.

Personality, psychopathology, and psychotherapy

Includes indexes.

0125848307

Obsessions and compulsions -- Form, content, and modes of obsessional experience -- The content of obsessions -- Types of compulsive behaviour -- Compulsive personality disorder -- Compulsive personality disorder : psychometric studies -- The natural history of obsessional disorder -- The seminal psychiatric theorists -- Some non-psychiatric theorists -- Theoretical views of the relationship between obsessional symptoms and compulsive personality -- Compulsive personality traits : a conceptualization -- The experience of compulsion -- Anxiety, depression, and resistance -- Compulsive checking -- Repetition, stereotypy, and rituals -- Indecision and doubt -- Obsessional ruminations -- The cognitive characteristics of obsessional disorder -- Psychological methods of remediation of obsessional disorders -- Obsessional-compulsive disorder : conventional approaches and a different look.

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