Mental contamination in OCD: Its role in the relationship between disgust propensity and fear of contamination

Clinical Neuropsychiatry

Volumn 10, Issue 3 SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages 13-19

  Carraresi, Claudia ^a   Bulli, Francesco ^a   Melli, Gabriele ^a,b   Stopani, Eleonora ^a  

^a Institute of Behavioral and Cognitive Psychology and Psychotherapy   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Disgust propensity; Fear of contamination; Mental contamination; Obsessive compulsive disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BECK ANXIETY INVENTORY; DEPRESSION; DIMENSIONAL OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE SCALE; DISGUST; DISGUST PROPENSITY QUESTIONNAIRE; DSM-IV; FEAR; FEMALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL CONTAMINATION; MENTAL CONTAMINATION SCALE; MENTAL HEALTH; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PROPENSITY SCORE; QUESTIONNAIRE; VANCOUVER OBSESSIONAL COMPULSIVE INVENTORY;

EID: 84896694034     PISSN: 17244935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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