OCD Casebook: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

By Steven E. Askey

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Casebook (Revised Edition) presents 60 case histories of OCD. Each case offers a discussion by the author and editors regarding their opinion on each diagnosis. This book will be useful to psychiatric residents because it provides examples of the many kinds of obsessions they will encounter in practice. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880487291
• ISBN13: 9780880487290
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

A fascinating journey for some-a revelation for others!

Griest has done a great service in compiling case studies for his readers. He has successfully shown that OCD cannot be "limited" to a certain set of manifestations in every patient but is a biological disorder that can affect each person differently. Having lived with OCD and the medicines that control it since I was very young, I found this book hard to put down! Knowing what OCD is-is one thing; however, being able to...