EAN: 9780306418501

OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER GEBUNDEN

Recent advances in behavioral and biological treatments have raised the hopes and expectations
of patients and clinicians alike in regard to obsessive-compulsive disorder-one of the most
disabling  crippling  and resistant conditions in psy chiatry. In addition to their therapeutic
efficacy  these new treatments have also opened new conceptual perspectives  thus complementing
the traditional psychological theories of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Therefore  it is
timely for these various conceptual frameworks and the treatment modalities they engender to be
integrated and synthesized in the pres ent volume. To this end  eminent scholars in their
respective areas were invited to contribute to this book  which we hope will symbolize and-in
some measure-actualize the spirit of collaboration required if we are to fully comprehend the
com plex nature of this disorder as well as to address existing ther apeutic challenges. In
Chapter 1  Rachman sets the stage by providing an overview of the conceptual and therapeutic
issues of obsessive-compulsive disorder. This is followed by an in depth review of the
behavioral interventions from which Foa vii viii PREFACE and colleagues successfully distill
the specific therapeutic processes of exposure and response prevention. In the third chapter 
Sifneos deals with the psychodynamic factors under lying obsessive-compulsive phenomena and
details his in novative technique of brief  anxiety-provoking psychotherapy aimed specifically
at the obsessional state.

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