PSYC 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cautionary Tale
6 Oct 2020
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Enduring, distressing emotional disorder that follows exposure to a severe helplessness or fear inducing threat. The victim re-experiences the trauma, avoids stimuli associated with it, and develops a numbing of responsiveness and an increased vigilance and arousal. Re-experience of trauma, emotional numbing, hypervigilance, & arousal. 20% women and 8% of men exposed. Exposed to fears, challenge/modify cognitions, and stress-management. Consists of interviews that are meant to allow individuals to directly confront the event and share their feelings with the counselor and to help structure their memories of the event. Anxiety disorder involving unwanted, persistent, intrusive thoughts and impulses, as well as repetitive actions intended to suppress them. Axis i vs. axis ii, personality disorder. Caudate nucleus is in the orbital region of the frontal cortex which filters aggressive, sexual, excretion related primitive impulses or sensations difficulty turning off the circuit. This is the part of the brain circuitry that deals with contamination, sex, and aggression most typical obsessions and compulsions.
