PSYC 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Solitude, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Comfort Food
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd: obsession: recurrent intrusive thought, impulse, or image that causes anxiety and (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:374)ot (cid:271)e dis(cid:373)issed or put out of o(cid:374)e"s (cid:373)i(cid:374)d, e(cid:454). You"re dri(cid:448)i(cid:374)g do(cid:449)(cid:374) the road a(cid:374)d (cid:455)ou ha(cid:448)e a sudde(cid:374) urge to drive off the side of the road. Your frontal cortex is a future simulation device. Frontal cortex is 3x larger than that of a chimpanzee. Prof. had a patient who loved to cook and one time she was cooking for her boyfriend and had a very graphic image of her stabbing her boyfriend and cutting him open. She had ocd and freaked out and was unable to forget this vivid image. Called her roommate and told her to get rid of all of the knives. Every time she saw something sharp she had this same image. This turned into seeing anything that could impale someone and would see graphic images of her impaling someone.
