Using mental imagery with subclinical OCD to 'freeze' contamination in its place: Evidence for looming vulnerability theory

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 757-768

  Riskind, John H ^a   Wheeler, David J ^a   Picerno, Matthew R ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; IMAGINATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSESSION; SELF REPORT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); INFECTION; INTERVENTION STUDIES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PHOBIC DISORDERS;

EID: 0030792157     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7967(97)00023-5     Document Type: Article

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