Treatment of Obsessive Thoughts and Cognitive Rituals Using Exposure and Response Prevention: A Case Study

Clinical Case Studies

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 6-24

  Abramowitz, Jonathan S ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

case study; cognitive behavioral theory; mental rituals; obsessional thoughts; obsessive compulsive disorder

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993808195     PISSN: 15346501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534650102001001002     Document Type: Article

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