In the strangeness of a new school and a new home, Obadiah stood aloof, watching?and counting. To him, it was a peculiar community?this one in which children did what they were told, and a curious house, too, where a shrill shriek of "When's Obadiah going to get his pie?" brought no response. So he watched with large grey eyes, and, because he could not help it, he counted, with swift, furtive ...

A male patient with homosexual obsession in obsessive compulsive disorder shows a better outcome following a combination of pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. This case report emphasizes the importance of combination therapy in obsessive compulsive disorder with abnormal sexual impulses and behavior.

The 2010 novel Enlèvement avec rançon by Yves Ravey is, perhaps unwittingly, a case study in obsessional neurosis. In this concise work, the reader is guided through twists and turns of crime committed narrator, Max, who has recruited his older brother to assist him kidnapping daughter boss at sheet-metal business where he an accountant. Despite its resemblance novel, narrative focussed primari...

This Eurocentric view fails to take into account the work of the Chinese alchemists, who also developed methods for manipulating minerals and altering the state of substances. Like western alchemists, the Chinese were obsessed with creating gold but, rather than creating gold for wealth, their obsession was with creating gold of the utmost purity for creating an elixir of life and a way to achi...

We assessed the effectiveness of using objects of obsession as token reinforcers to increase task performance for children with autism. The use of obsessions as tokens (e.g., letter "A", a picture of a train) was compared with the use of typical tokens (e.g., stars, happy faces). A multiple baseline design across children with a reversal within child was used. Data were collected on percentage ...