Unfortunately, many people, including many psychotherapists, mistakenly think that Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in children and adolescents is rare. Recent research indicates that approximately half of all adults with OCD experience clinical symptoms of the disorder during their childhood. OCD in childhood is a chronic and distressing disorder that can lead to severe impairments in socia...

BACKGROUND Repeated checking in OCD can be understood from a cognitive perspective as the motivated need to achieve certainty about the outcome of a potentially risky action, leading to the application of Elevated Evidence Requirements (EER) and overuse of subjective criteria. METHOD Twenty-four obsessional checkers, 22 anxious controls, and 26 non-clinical controls were interviewed about and...

Obsessional following is a "stalking" behavior in which a person engages in an abnormal or long-term pattern of threat or harassment directed toward a specific individual. In a review of preliminary research during the past 20 years, the author finds 10 studies, all nonrandom samples of convenience, published between 1978 and 1995 in which obsessional followers charged with criminal behavior or...

Sixty-six patients were assessed clinically, psychologically and physiologically before operation, at six weeks and at a mean of i6 months following stereotactic limbic leucotomy. Seventy-three per cent were clinically improved at six weeks and 76 per cent at i6 months. In obsessional neurosis, 89 per cent of patients showed definite clinical improvement at i6 months; in chronic anxiety, 66 per...

Introduction Obsessive compulsive symptoms may occur at any age. It was studied extensively in the youth contratry to elderly that usually suffer for other health issues leading misdiagnosis. Objectives We aim through this study discover particularities of OCD . Methods Our literature review based on PubMed interface and adapted 2 databases: Science Direct Google Scholar using following combina...

The classical symptom specificity hypothesis (Blatt, 1974) particularly associates obsessional symptoms to interpersonal behavior directed at autonomy and separation from others. Cross-sectional group research, however, has yielded inconsistent findings on this predicted association, and a previous empirical case study (Cornelis et al., in press; see Chapter 2) documented obsessional pathology ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is one of the more disabling and potentially chronic anxiety disorders that occurs in several medical settings. However, it is often under-recognized and under-treated. The condition is now known to be prevalent among children and adolescents. Obsessional images as a symptom occur less frequently than other types of obsessions. In this report, we describe a y...