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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      May 2010
      June 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511721793
      9780521460583
      9780521027397
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511721793
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.49kg, 216 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.331kg, 216 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Animal Behaviour, Life Sciences, Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, Medicine, Neurosciences, Psychiatry
      Series:
      Problems in the Behavioural Sciences (14)
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    Subjects:
    Animal Behaviour, Life Sciences, Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, Medicine, Neurosciences, Psychiatry
    Series:
    Problems in the Behavioural Sciences (14)
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    Obsessive-compulsive disorder is currently the subject of considerable research, since recent epidemiological studies have suggested that the condition is more prevalent than was originally believed. This book offers a critical discussion of the most important theories that have been put forward to explain this disorder. The book includes behavioural/learning accounts (and cognitive-behavioural supplements of these), based on Pavlovian personality theories (such as those by Eysenck, Gray and Claridge), Pierre Janet's account, cybernetic approaches, psychodynamic approaches, Reed's 'cognitive-structural' account, and biological approaches. Therapeutic approaches to the disorder are also considered, insofar as they are relevant to these theories. This book is unique in both the comprehensiveness and the depth of its coverage of theories of OCD. It also offers an entirely new approach to the definition of the disorder.

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