• ISBN13: 9780824798567
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Medical, Nursing and Health Sciences
• Publisher: T&F
• Publisher Imprint: Mar Dekker
• Publication Date: December 16, 1997
• Pages: 407
• Original Price: 107.0 GBP
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1000 grams

About the Book 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. <br>Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders<br><li>covers spectrum illnesses, including somatoform, dissociative, eating, schizo-obsessive, neurological, and impulse-control conditions <br></li><li>defines and assesses OCD with DSM-IV and other instruments <br></li><li>discusses causative factors of OCD <br></li><li>examines and proposes improved naturally occurring veterinary animal models <br></li><li>details new pharmacological and combination/augmentation treatments and serotonin-reuptake inhibitors <br></li><li>provides a mind-brain interaction paradigm based on metabolic changes resulting from cognitive behavioral self-treatment <br></li><li>charts the growth of nonpharmacological and behavioral as well as alternative therapies, such as group and family support strategies and yoga meditation <br></li><li>and more.</li>