The Mindfulness Workbook for OCD: A Guide to Overcoming Obsessions and Compulsions Using Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)

Powerful & practical tools to take your life back from OCD

If you have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), you may experience unwanted or intrusive thoughts you can't control. You might worry about being contaminated by germs, or compulsively check to make sure your fears won't come true. And if you're like many people struggling with OCD, your symptoms can leave you feeling trapped in a cycle of obsession, avoidance, and isolation. The good news is there is help. If you're ready to take back your life back from OCD-and start living with more joy in the moment-this workbook has everything you need to get started right away.

Combining powerful mindfulness practices with evidence-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), this fully revised and updated second edition of The Mindfulness Workbook for OCD offers practical and accessible tools for managing obsessive thoughts and compulsive urges. With this workbook, you'll develop greater present-moment awareness, learn to challenge your own distorted thinking, and stop treating thoughts as threats and feelings as facts. Most importantly, you'll discover ways to help you live a full and meaningful life with OCD.

This second edition includes:

√ New meditations & mindfulness metaphors

√ Updated research on OCD

√ Information about emotional & mental contamination

√ Tips for dealing with existential obsessions & false memories

JON HERSHFIELD, MFT, is director of The Center for OCD and Anxiety at Sheppard Pratt in Towson, MD. He specializes in the use of mindfulness and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and related disorders.

TOM CORBOY, MFT, is the executive director of the OCD Center of Los Angeles, CA, which he founded in 1999. He is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy (MBCBT) for the treatment of OCD and related anxiety-based conditions.

Foreword writer James Claiborn, PhD, ABPP, is a psychologist in private practice specializing in OCD and related disorders. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International OCD Foundation and has presented internationally on OCD, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and other topics.