Do we need a cognitive theory for obsessive-compulsive disorder? Yes, we do

Abstract

Nowadays a general trend in psychiatry and clinical psychology, claming to explain mental illness and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in particular as a neurological disease, seems to be in ascendant. The purpose of this position paper is to rebut this perspective on OCD and demonstrate that an Appraisal Theory (AT) of the disorder, is necessary and sufficient in order to account for proximal determinants in the genesis (proximal determinants) and maintenance of OC sympomatology.

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• http://www.clinicalneuropsychiatry.org/pdf/14-6Mancini.pdf

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@article{Mancini2014,
title = {Do we need a cognitive theory for obsessive-compulsive disorder? Yes, we do},
author = {Francesco Mancini and Barbara Barcaccia},
editor = {Giovanni Fioriti Editore s.r.l.},
url = {http://www.clinicalneuropsychiatry.org/pdf/14-6Mancini.pdf},
year  = {2014},
date = {2014-05-01},
journal = {Clinical Neuropsychiatry},
volume = {11},
number = {6},
pages = {197-203},
abstract = {Nowadays a general trend in psychiatry and clinical psychology, claming to explain mental illness and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in particular as a neurological disease, seems to be in ascendant. The purpose of this position paper is to rebut this perspective on OCD and demonstrate that an Appraisal Theory (AT) of the disorder, is necessary and sufficient in order to account for proximal determinants in the genesis (proximal determinants) and maintenance of OC sympomatology.},
keywords = {appraisal theory, beliefs, cognitive deficits, goals, obsessive-compulsive disorder},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}