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From the cover flaps: The obsessive-compulsive neurosis is one of the most difficult and frustrating therapeutic problems a therapist faces. In this challenging and wide-ranging study, Leon Salzman takes a fresh, clear look, not only at the obsessive-compulsive neurosis and its underlying character structure, but at the whole process of its treatment. Obsessive compulsive behavior is an attempt to maintain the illusion of control over functioning. The obsessional technique, through its elaborate devices of avoiding commitment and decision, protects the individual from feelings of failure, imperfection, and human fallibility. If verbal devices fail, then the ritual - with its magical possibilities of overcoming human limitations - attempts to guarantee control. If that fails too, the individual can then develop phobias, thereby avoiding any encounter with threatening situations. Dr. Salzman shows how to understand this common yet challenging patient in this revised and greatly expanded version of his now classic The Obsessive Personality . The present volume includes a full-length case study that documents the difficulties encountered in treating these disorders. The entire course

Author

Salzman, Leon

Publisher

Jason Aronson Publishers

Published

1980

Language

EN

ISBN

9780876683927

Subjects

Medical, Medicine