Theoretical Approaches to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Zusammenfassung This book offers a critical discussion of the most important theories which have been put forward to explain obsessive-compulsive 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Synopsis; Acknowledgments and provenance; 1. The natural history and definition of obsessive-compulsive disorder; 2. Behavioral/learning accounts of OCD; 3. Accounts of OCD based upon personality theories derived from the work of Pavlov; 4. Janet on OCD; 5. Psychodynamic approaches to OCD; 6. Cognitive style/deficit approaches to OCD; 7. Biological approaches to OCD; 8. Concluding remarks; References; Author index; Subject index.

Product details

• Authors: Jakes Ian, Ian Jakes, Ian (University of London) Jakes
• Assisted by: Jeffrey Gray (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521027397
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02739-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Problems in the Behavioural Sc
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works