
Dr Steven Phillipson - Magical thinking in OCD (Ep183)
The OCD Stories
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The Importance of Thought-Action Fusion in OCD
People with OCD are aware in the world of rational thinking that these associations are meaningless, bizarre and irrational. ERP is to de-conditions the brain's physiological fragility and the brain's powerful malfunctioning signals. It's not really to attend to the rational, irrational component of these thoughts. Thought-action fusion is the idea that simply having the thought makes it more likely that that might occur.
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