It's the feeling inside my head: A qualitative analysis of mental contamination in obsessive-compulsive disorder

Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 163-173

  Coughtrey, Anna E ^a   Shafran, Roz ^a   Lee, Michelle ^a   Rachman, Stanley J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

compulsive washing; Contamination fear; mental pollution; OCD

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; BATH; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DELUSION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF HELP; SYMBOLISM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BATHS; CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DELUSIONS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SELF-HELP GROUPS;

EID: 84858850256     PISSN: 13524658     EISSN: 14691833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1352465811000658     Document Type: Article

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