Although the suppression of thoughts may seem to be an effective solution, this strategy can lead to an exacerbation of the very thought that one is attempting to suppress. This ironic effect is the most obvious unwanted outcome of suppression and has now been investigated empirically for more than two decades. However, the fact that suppression is an effortful process implies that, even when s...

“Benito Cereno” offers an exemplary text to consider obsession in relation narrative form. Melville’s tale operates on at least two levels: the first part, a third-person narration that exhausts itself when “Melville’s ultimate dupe” (Ngai 61), Captain Delano, finally realizes there has been slave revolt Cereno’s ship, and second transcripts from legal depositions court case makes sovereign jud...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between obsessional dissociation, family accommodation, and anxiety sensitivity in individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
 Materials Methods: participants descriptive relationship-seeking were 62 OCD 43 healthy controls. We collected data using a sociodemographic form, Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (YBO...

background: obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) symptoms and the related disorders are subsumed under chronic psychiatric disorders which are of psychosocial and therapeutic importance. in most studies, the mean age of onset of significant ocd symptoms is adolescence period. the aim of this study was to evaluate ocd symptoms, tic disorder, body dysmorphic disorder (bdd) and trichotilomania amon...

BACKGROUND Several studies have identified discrete symptom dimensions in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), derived from factor analyses of the individual items or symptom categories of the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale Symptom Checklist (YBOCS-SC). This study aims to extend previous work on the relationship between obsessions and compulsions by specifically including mental compulsi...