Obsessive Compulsive Behaviour (Thorsons Health) - Softcover

Toates, Frederick M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0722529120 ISBN 13: 9780722529126

Publisher: Thorsons, 1993

Synopsis

What is it like to feel you must check a dozen times that the gas is turned off before you can leave the house? Or to lock and re-lock the front door until you are hours late for work? Do you repeatedly wash your hands until they are chapped and sore? Sufferers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder are often highly intelligent and creative people, but they are slaves to persistent unwanted thoughts, tormented by irrational fears of death and contamination. One in ten individuals suffer from one form or another of obsessional thought or behaviour at some time in their lives - the behaviour needn't be "bizarre" or extreme to qualify. This book aims to help sufferers to overcome these obsessions. Frederick Toates is an experimental psychologist and a former sufferer from obsessional thoughts himself. He explains factors that may trigger the disorder, vital dos and don'ts for the sufferer, the available treatments and pitfalls, and how carers and families can cope.

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Review

...helpful both to those who suffer from the condition and to those who wish to help but struggle to understand. -- Joan Bond, Director TOP UK

..an excellent book – full of helpful hints, advice and inspiration for sufferers of OCD which succeeds in providing an insightful guide to a complex problem -- Dr Frank Tallis, Clinical Psychologist

About the Author

Dr Frederick Toates is a distinguished psychologist and Reader in Psychobiology at the Open University in the UK. He is the author of several books including Biological Psychology: an integrative approach. He suffered from OCD for many years, before overcoming it by means of the approach explained and made simple in this book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thorsons
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0722529120
• ISBN 13: 9780722529126
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192