The Neuroscience of OCD Behavior Therapy

In 1987, patients came to me with this non-observable ritualizing form of OCD or what I refer to as puree. And back then things like snapping a rubber band when a person would have an intrusive thought were not state of the art treatments. So I really just took treatment approaches that had already been established by Dr. Edna Foa in Philadelphia and applied them to people who are afraid of contamination,. aids, checking the light switch, and behaving in these elaborate escape rituals.