Treatments of OCD
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- OCD: Treatments
- DRUG THERAPY
- Paroxetine: SSRI increases level of serotonin. Forces them through the through the post synaptic neuron.
- CBT
- Helping people to understand that they are misinterpreting their thoughts
- Making people aware of how they try to neutralise the obsessive thoughts by attempting to make amends for having such thoughts.
- Attempt to help the person change their distorted cognitive processes. The most important aspect here is to stop the person from catastrophising.
- An additional techniques used in cognitive therapy is habituation training (Franklin et al 2000). Here the client is asked to think repeatedly about their obsessive thoughts.
- The idea is that by deliberately thinking about obsessions, they will become less anxiety raising
- Psychodynamic
- Free association: lies and is allowed to talk and is then interpreted to show the core problem in the psychosexualstages
- Dream analysis: tells manifest content (dreams) then interpreted into latent content which is the underlying meaning of symbols.
- Hypnosis: helps access the unconscious mind.
- DRUG THERAPY
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