Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: Diagnosis, Etiology, Treatment (Medical Psychiatry Series)

Integrates modern science and medicine with alternative and self-help therapies. Updates current knowledge on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)-offering practical advice for specific and appropriate patient care. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorderscovers spectrum illnesses, including somatoform, dissociative, eating, schizo-obsessive, neurological, and impulse-control conditions defines and assesses OCD with DSM-IV and other instruments discusses causative factors of OCD examines and proposes improved naturally occurring veterinary animal models details new pharmacological and combination/augmentation treatments and serotonin-reuptake inhibitors provides a mind-brain interaction paradigm based on metabolic changes resulting from cognitive behavioral self-treatment charts the growth of nonpharmacological and behavioral as well as alternative therapies, such as group and family support strategies and yoga meditation and more.