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438 Advances in Psychiatric Treatment (2007), vol. 13, 438 446 doi: cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) requires a detailed understanding of the phenomenology and the mechanism by which specific cognitive processes and behaviours maintain the symptoms of the disorder. A textbook definition of an obsession is an unwanted intrusive thought, doubt, image or urge that repeatedly enters a person s mind. Obsessions are distressing and ego-dystonic but are acknowledged as originating in the person s mind and as being unreasonable or excessive. A minority are regarded as overvalued ideas (Veale, 2002) and, rarely, delusions.
438 Advances in Psychiatric Treatment (2007), vol. 13, 438–446 doi: 10.1192/apt.bp.107.003699 Delivering cognitive–behavioural therapy (CBT) for obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) requires
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