Scrupulosity is a moral/religious subtype of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) that remains understudied within the extant literature. Drawing from separate lines of research suggesting that attachment insecurities underlie OCD and that God functions psychologically much like other attachment figures, we examined a purported association between attachment to God and scrupulosity. A large samp...

aim and background: some of obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) patients believe that their unpleasant thoughts can influence the external events. the aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between the contents of thought-action fusion and obsessive-compulsive symptoms in patients with ocd. methods and materials: in this cross-sectional correlative study 60 ocd patients selected b...

OBJECTIVES Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety-spectrum disorder that affects 1-2% of the adult population. People with OCD are more likely to report impaired social and occupational functioning. Although effective treatments of the OCD exist, many sufferers from this disorder are continuously misdiagnosed. Therefore, improving the assessment of the OCD remains an important area o...

Objectives This study aimed to investigate the effect of emotion-focused therapy on emotional regulation styles and severity of obsessive-compulsive symptoms in women with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Methods The present study has a quasi-experimental design with pre-test-post-test and control group with follow-up. The statistical population included all women with OCD referring to cli...

Autism, Pervasive Development Disorder (PDD), Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD), and Obsessive and Compulsive Disorder (OCD) involve significant frontal and temporal lobe dysfunction. This conclusion is based on NeuroSPECT work now in progress on children afflicted with these disorders. We have been using NeuroSPECT to image cerebral abnormalities of perfusion/function in Autism, AD...

Previous studies have shown differences in clinical features of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) between men and women, including mean age at onset of obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS), types of OCS, comorbid disorders, course, and prognosis. The aim of this study was to compare male and female patients with OCD on several demographic and clinical characteristics. All new patients with OCD...

This narrative review is organized around the primary symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) including physical and cognitive effectiveness behavior therapy (CBT) in reducing these youth with an OCD diagnosis. These are followed by sections on comorbidities anxiety depression, effective delivery CBT via both internet in-person, greater versus pharmacotherapy, use alternative therapies ...

objective: the present study aimed to investigate the metacognitive model of obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd), through a comparative study of thought fusion beliefs and thought control strategies between patients with ocd, depression, and normal people. methods: this is a causal-comparative study. about 20 patients were selected with ocd, and 20 patients with major depression disorder (mdd),...

OBJECTIVE Obsession and compulsions in anorexia nervosa (AN) patients are often confused with the preoccupations and rituals that are characteristic of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). We examined the type and frequency of characteristic OCD obsessions and compulsions in a large sample of AN patients. METHOD In personal interviews with 324 AN patients, we assessed lifetime histories of ea...

We report here a patient in whom the effects of a cerebellum mass may have led to development of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). A 33-year-old woman showed symptoms of OCD, including obsessive worry about infection from tainted blood and repetitive confirmation, which worsened during pregnancy. She had comprehension in regard to her illness and no evidence of cognitive dysfunction and did ...