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Stop Obsessing!: How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions (Revised Edition) |  | Authors: Edna B. Foa, Reid Wilson
Publisher: Bantam
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 253
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0553381172
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8584
EAN: 9780553381177
ASIN: 0553381172
Publication Date: July 2001
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Product Description
Newly Revised and Updated!
Are you tormented by extremely distressing thoughts or persistent worries?
Compelled to wash your hands repeatedly?
Driven to repeat or check certain numbers, words, or actions?
If you or someone you love suffers from these symptoms, you may be one of the millions of Americans who suffer from some form of obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD.
Once considered almost untreatable, OCD is now known to be a highly treatable disorder using behavior therapy. In this newly revised edition of Stop Obsessing! Drs. Foa and Wilson, internationally renowned authorities on the treatment of anxiety disorders, share their scientifically based and clinically proven self-help program that has already allowed thousands of men and women with OCD to enjoy a life free from excessive worries and rituals.
You will discover:
• Step-by-step programs for both mild and severe cases of OCD
• The most effective ways to help you let go of your obsessions and gain control over your compulsions
• New charts and fill-in guides to track progress and make exercises easier
• Questionnaires for self-evaluation and in-depth understanding of your symptoms
• Expert guidance for finding the best professional help
• The latest information about medications prescribed for OCD
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 good basic info on OCD August 1, 2010
Daniel A. Johnson (Chicago, IL)
THIS BOOK GIVES A GOOD BASIC OVERVIEW OF OCD. I AM A THERAPIST AND FOUND THE INFORMAION HELPFUL IN EXPANDING MY UNDERSTANDING AND PRACTICE
 this book is perfect January 24, 2010
J. A. Oviedo (San Diego,CA)
1 out of 10 found this review helpful
this book is helping me overcome OCD and other anxiety disorders, it has opened my eyes to understand how me as a person came to be who i've become, even helped me to understand my parents personality and why people react in various situations. This is something all should be educated on becuase all suffer from some form of anxiety.
bottom line
this aid will prove to provide some relief but the complete solution to all our suffering is Gods Kingdom, the Bible provides true comfort that very soon Jehovah God and Jesus Christ will completely solve all of mankinds woes by removing all suffering and pain, transforming the earth into a paradise where humans will be able to live forever please read:
psalm 37:10,11,29
isaiah 33:24
Matthew 6:25
philippians 4:6
Rev 21:3,4
 Stop Obsessing: How to overcome your obsessions and compulsions June 28, 2009
Dan Mcmillan (USA)
0 out of 15 found this review helpful
I ordered the product about one and a half months before it came. I would have liked if it came earlier. The product is good it is just the service on how it got here was extremely slow. I have had things shipped from further distances and I have them arrive much earlier.
Stop Obsessing April 26, 2009
Lucky Lady (Indiana)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book was in very good shape. I enjoyed reading it. It seems to have some good advice. I purchased it to help with a Phychology presentation and it was informative. Thanks
Not quite perfect January 10, 2006
D. P. Birkett (Suffern, NY USA)
16 out of 39 found this review helpful
This was listed as the top choice for obsessive-compulsive disorder by the Carlat Report for December 2005 in a review of self-help books in psychiatry (www.thecarlatreport.com).
It is very much a self-help book, directed at patients rather than professionals, but some of the methods recommended seem to assume that a professional is involved and it discusses the use of medication. Indecisions and mentisme are not covered but hoarding (which is seldom due to OCD)is. As with several other self-help books it is without references or statistics so that we have to take some of the claims for effectiveness on trust. The professional reputations of the authors are so high that I would be inclined to trust them, although in some of the cases described the remedy looks worse than the disease. Their recommendations for dealing with contamination fears, and also their techniques for coping with contrast ideas, might be quite distressing.
An academic quibble is that the techniques mostly seem to be plain vanilla behavior therapy, rather than cognitive. The cognitive therapy of Beck (and its avatar, the rational-emotive therapy of Ellis) involve arguing patients out of their symptoms by convincing them of the logical errors of their thinking, a futile endeavor in OCD. This book recommends the kinds of treatment that many of us have found useful empirically whatever our theoretical background.
Sigmund Freud (in one of his letters to Binswanger) discusses a case of OCD and recommends what is called in Norman Guterman's translation "counter-compulsion." (His classic paper on OCD is usually considered the 1909 "Rat Man" whom he did treat by psychoanalysis. That was published as "Der Familienroman der Neurotiker Bemerkung einen Fall von Zwangneurose" for those of you who own the Sammlung kleiner Schriften. In the Collier paperback series, edited by Philip Rieff, the "Rat Man" case is in "Three Case Histories" )
Where Foa and Wilson fall short of Freud, and of Judith Rappaport's "The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing," is in literary merit. They write clearly and understandably but this is not something that the general reader would want to read cover to cover.
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