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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders

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Behavioral Theories and Treatment of Anxiety

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Although obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is the least prevalent of the anxiety disorders, it is often one of the more severe, extracting a heavy toll in personal and social debilitation. As a diagnostic entity it is easily recognizable, and Esquirol, as early as 1838, described the disorder. More systematic defi nitions were offered by Janet (1908), Schneider (1925), and Lewis (1966). In this chapter, we will review and summarize the clinical syndrome, theories, relationships to other conditions, and contemporary treatments. An exhaustive review, however, is beyond the scope of this chapter, and the reader may refer to Rachman and Hodgson (1980), Beech (1974), and Mavissakalian, Turner, and Michelson (in preparation) for comprehensive critiques.

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