A substantial portion of schizophrenia patients with obsessive compulsive disorder fail to respond to regimen of antipsychotic and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor. Herein, we report a schizophrenic patient who, after being switched from escitalopram to milnacipran, showed a rapid improvement of his debilitating OCD. A 23-year-old unemployed single man had been diagnosed with schizophreni...

A substantial portion of schizophrenia patients with obsessive compulsive disorder fail to respond to regimen of antipsychotic and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor. Herein, we report a schizophrenic patient who, after being switched from escitalopram to milnacipran, showed a rapid improvement of his debilitating OCD. A 23-year-old unemployed single man had been diagnosed with schizophreni...

A patient comes to your office with repeated unwanted and intrusive thoughts that prevent her from conducting her daily life activities and that make her anxious. You apply a simple screening and conclude that she may have an obsessive-compulsive disorder. The work-up rules out other less frequent causes of similar manifestations and a more formal diagnostic interview confirms your clinical sus...

This article reviews empirical findings on two key premises of the appraisal model of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): (a) non-clinical populations experience intrusive thoughts (ITs) that are similar in form and in content to obsessions; and (b) ITs develop into obsessions because they are appraised according to dysfunctional beliefs. There is support for the universality of ITs. However, ...

Individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) often experience intrusive thoughts. These intrusions may be due to biases in information processing mechanisms, including attention, memory, and learning. To examine this hypothesis, we presented a modified negative priming (NP) paradigm with idiographically selected words to 19 individuals with OCD (OCs) and 19 matched non-anxious control p...

Current cognitive-behavioral models of the etiology of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) suggest that maladaptive appraisal of otherwise normal intrusive thoughts have their origins in early learning experiences. The present study investigated the relationship between adverse childhood experience and OCD symptoms and related dysfunctional beliefs in a general population using a structural equ...

The development of behaviour therapy for OCD and its evolution into cognitive behaviour therapy is described, highlighting the importance of a crucial series of experiments conducted by Rachman and colleagues in the mid-1970s. More recently, developments in cognitive theory suggest that the key to understanding obsessional problems lies in the way in which intrusive thoughts, images, impulses a...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the current study is to investigate the relationship between metacognition and obsessive beliefs, and procrastination. METHODS 285 students of Tabriz and Mohaghegh Ardabili Universities, Iran, were selected by random sampling, and completed the metacognition (MCQ-30) questionnaire, obsessive beliefs questionnaire (OBQ-44), and General Procrastination Scale. The research m...

Homosexual Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (HOCD) is marked by excessive fear of becoming or being homosexual. The subjects often experience intrusive, unwanted mental images of homosexual behaviour. The excessive uncontrolled thoughts/doubts are very distressing and lead to compulsions in form of checking. We present a rare such case who was suffering from HOCD.