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Theoretical Approaches to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: 14 (Problems in the Behavioural Sciences, Series Number 14) - Hardcover

Ian Jakes

 
9780521460583: Theoretical Approaches to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: 14 (Problems in the Behavioural Sciences, Series Number 14)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521460581 ISBN 13: 9780521460583
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

This book offers a critical discussion of the most important theories which have been put forward to explain obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder is currently the subject of considerable research, because 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 behavioral/learning accounts (and cognitive-behavioral supplements of these), accounts 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. An analysis of the concept of OCD is also presented, together with a critique of the existing definitions of the disorder. 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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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521460581
ISBN 13 
9780521460583
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
216