BRAIN LOCK : Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior A Four-Step Self-Treatment Method to Change Your Brain Chemistry

Schwartz, Jeffrey M.D.; Beyette, Beverly

ISBN 10: 0060987111 / ISBN 13: 9780060987114

Published by ReganBooks/HarperCollins, New York, NY, 1997

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Text/BRAND NEW. Soft cover/NF w/trace bend to upper front corner. Four-step cognitive, self-treatment method for liberation from compulsive-obessesive disorder (OCD) be it fear of contamination in use of public facilities or handling door knobs, and other debiliating pre-occupations urging performance of the same tasks over and over again. Authors conclude OCD is "in the truest sense, a family disorder", and hence healing requires family cöoperation. The guide, with much clinical work done at UCLA, to developing new patterns of response is in 3 parts: I, The Four Steps; II, Applying the Four Steps to Your Life; and, III, Self-Treatment Manual for the Four-Step Method. Fine copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: BRAIN LOCK : Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior A Four-Step Self-Treatment Method to Change Your Brain Chemistry
• Publisher: ReganBooks/HarperCollins, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060987111
• ISBN 13: 9780060987114
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition, 28th Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued

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Synopsis

An estimated 5 million Americans suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and live diminished lives in which they are compelled to obsess about something or to repeat a similar task over and over. Traditionally, OCD has been treated with Prozac or similar drugs. The problem with medication, aside from its cost, is that 30 percent of people treated don't respond to it, and when the pills stop, the symptoms invariably return.

In Brain Lock, Jeffrey M. Schwartz presents a simple four-step method for overcoming OCD that is so effective, it's now used in academic treatment centers throughout the world. Proven by brain-imaging tests to actually alter the brain's chemistry, this method doesn't rely on psychopharmaceuticals. Instead, patients use cognitive self-therapy and behavior modification to develop new patterns of response to their obsessions. In essence, they use the mind to fix the brain. Using the real-life stories of actual patients, Brain Lock explains this revolutionary method and provides readers with the inspiration and tools to free themselves from their psychic prisons and regain control of their lives.

About the Author

Jeffrey M. Schwartz M.D. is an internationally-recognized authority on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and is the author of the bestseller Brain Lock. He is a Research Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine.