Results 251 to 260 of about 7,258 (296)
Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.

Compulsive hoarding

Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 2010
Compulsive hoarding is a chronic and debilitating condition that represents a significant public health concern. Hoarding is characterized by four key elements: difficulty discarding, excessive acquiring, clutter, and distress and impairment due to hoarding.
Christina M, Gilliam, David F, Tolin
openaire   +2 more sources

Compulsiveness in Physicians

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1986
To the Editor.— Dr Gabbard1has written about the role of compulsiveness in the normal physician. Is it not hypocritical (not to mention supercilious) to spell out so disagreeable a picture of the trait of "compulsiveness," yet admit that "we would all probably choose a compulsive physician if we were seriously ill"?
openaire   +2 more sources

Compulsive Hoarding

American Journal of Psychotherapy, 1987
Four cases of compulsive hoarding are described, all sharing the following characteristics: (1) onset in the twenties, (2) preoccupation with hoarding to the exclusion of work and family, (3) diminished insight, (4) little interest in receiving treatment, (5) no attempt to curb their compulsion. They do not show clear psychotic features.
openaire   +2 more sources

Compulsive Overeating

Nursing Clinics of North America, 1991
Compulsive overeating is a behavior used in an attempt to numb or nurture feelings that are threatening to the person. Emotional states are soothed by use of food. Treatment is designed to respond to internal, biologic causes of hunger and satiety while simultaneously allowing feelings to surface and be dealt with.
openaire   +2 more sources

Towards a Classification of Compulsions in Obsessive Compulsive Neurosis

Psychopathology, 2010
The aim of this study is to derive a system of classification of compulsive phenomena occurring in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). 461 compulsions were found in 65.53% of 412 patients seen during the decade 1975 to 1984. An attempt has been made to break down the compulsions observed into different categories of form and content. The rationale for
S, Khanna, S M, Channabasavanna
openaire   +2 more sources

Treatment of compulsive hoarding

Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2004
AbstractCompulsive hoarding and saving symptoms, found in many patients who have obsessive‐compulsive disorder (OCD), are part of a clinical syndrome that has been associated with poor response to antiobsessional medications and cognitive‐behavioral therapy (CBT).
Sanjaya, Saxena, Karron M, Maidment
openaire   +2 more sources

Compulsion and Addiction

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1996
In this paper, the proposal is advanced that addictions may be understood analytically to be a subset of compulsions, and correspondingly that they may frequently be suitable for psychoanalytic treatment A revision of the definition of addictions and compulsions is suggested, and some treatment implications of this revision are considered.
openaire   +2 more sources

Are Religious Compulsions Religious or Compulsive: A Phenomenological Study

American Journal of Psychotherapy, 1984
Religious compulsions in four patients are presented to show the phenomenological similarities and differences between religious and compulsive rituals. The role of religious ritual observance in predisposing to obsessive-compulsive neurosis is discussed and minor modifications in the usual course of behavioral treatment are suggested.
openaire   +2 more sources

The compulsion to confess and the compulsion to judge in the analytic situation

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2014
In this paper the author shows that human beings have two quasi-instinctual primitive tendencies - namely, the compulsion to confess and the compulsion to judge (to condemn or to absolve). These compulsions are originally unconscious and become conscious during the course of the analytic process.
openaire   +2 more sources

Obsessive-compulsive disorders

European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2006
Three major changes will probably be introduced in the DSM-5 regarding obsessive-compulsive disorder: OCD will be classified in the diagnostic category 'obsessive-compulsive and related disorders', the clinician should consider the degree of insight into a symptomatology (good to poor insight) and a subtype of tic-related OCD will be introduced.
openaire   +2 more sources

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy