Psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral approaches of obsessive-compulsive disorder: Is it time to work through our ambivalence?

Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 291-311

  Kempke, Stefan ^a   Luyten, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIVALENCE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONFLICT; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HATE; HUMAN; LOVE; OBJECT RELATION; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL BALANCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REVIEW; SOCIAL CONTROL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SELF EFFICACY;

EID: 38949160482     PISSN: 00259284     EISSN: 00259284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/bumc.2007.71.4.291     Document Type: Review

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