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Dr Michael Greenberg: Malan’s model of OCD (#366)

The OCD Stories

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OCD Symptoms

In OCD, what we have is a conflict between healthy aggression of some sort and attachment. So feeling my healthy, aggressive feelings would pose a threat to attachment. And so because I can't feel or acknowledge those feelings, they get expressed symbolically in these OCD symptoms. The symptom of being preoccupied with hurting the baby is actually a defense against normal and healthy feelings.

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