The Obsessive Mind : Understanding and Treating Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Francesco Mancini

ISBN 10: 1138321079 / ISBN 13: 9781138321076

Published by Routledge, 2018

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Obsessive Mind offers a well-defined and comprehensive understanding of obsessive-compulsive disorder and its treatment model. Based on the results of current research, the book offers a psychological perspective on the disorder, a complete presentation of useful strategies and techniques that can be implemented in therapy, and work that can be done with family members of OCD patients, all proposed coherently with the theoretical model of the disorder. It also illustrates the pivotal role of moral goals as proximal psychological determinants of the obsessive symptomatology. The Obsessive Mind can be used by new clinicians tobecome acquainted with the theory and treatment of OCD, as well as more advanced clinicians to improve their OCD treatment skills and learn new interventions and ways to get out of deadlock in treatmentand thereby increase efficacy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Obsessive Mind : Understanding and Treating Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138321079
• ISBN 13: 9781138321076
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 23D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 23 millimeters depth
• Weight: 630 grams

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Synopsis

The Obsessive Mind offers a well-defined and comprehensive understanding of obsessive-compulsive disorder and its treatment model. Based on the results of current research, the book offers a psychological perspective on the disorder, a complete presentation of useful strategies and techniques that can be implemented in therapy, and work that can be done with family members of OCD patients, all proposed coherently with the theoretical model of the disorder. It also illustrates the pivotal role of moral goals as proximal psychological determinants of the obsessive symptomatology. The Obsessive Mind can be used by new clinicians to become acquainted with the theory and treatment of OCD, as well as more advanced clinicians to improve their OCD treatment skills and learn new interventions and ways to get out of deadlock in treatment and thereby increase efficacy.

About the Author

Francesco Mancini is director of the Quadrennial Postgraduate Specialisation Schools in Cognitive-Behaviour Psychotherapy Associazione di Psicologia Cognitiva APC and Scuola di Psicoterapia Cognitiva srl SPC, and full professor of clinical psychology at Guglielmo Marconi University, Rome. He is the past-president of the Italian Society of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapy (SITCC).