PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Autonomic Nervous System, Eye Movement, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
7 Dec 2020
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Obsessions-persistent thoughts, ideas, impulses, or images that seem to invade a. Compulsions-repetitive and rigid behaviors or mental acts that people feel they must person in order to prevent or reduce anxiety. Obsessive-compulsive disorder-when obsessions or compulsions feel excessive or unreasonable, cause great distress, take up much time, or interfere with daily functions. *most common theme appears to be dirt or contamination. Although compulsive behaviors are technically under voluntary control, these people feel they must do them and have little sense of choice in the matter. Isolation-simply disown their unwanted thoughts and experience them as foreign intrusions. Undoing-performing acts that are meant to cancel out their undesirable impulses. Reaction formation-taking on a lifestyle that directly opposed their unacceptable impulses. Neutralize (the thoughts)-thinking or behaving in ways meant to put matters right or to make amends. Habituation training-directing clients to call forth their obsessive thoughts again and again.
