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Cognitive-Behavioural Treatment of Culturally Bound Obsessional Ruminations: A Case Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Gregoris Simos  and
Evangelos Dimitriou
Gregoris Simos
Affiliation:
Thessaloniki, Greece
Evangelos Dimitriou
Affiliation:
Thessaloniki, Greece
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Abstract

Therapeutic management of obsessional ideas without compulsions is considered to be a rather difficult clinical problem. This report discusses the case of a 24-year old lady with a nine year history of recurrent Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder which most recently presented with a year-long obsessional rumination concerning her superstitious personal responsibility for the accidental death of her cousin. Repeated audio-taped listening to the cognitively restructured content of her obsession resulted both in a rapid elimination of her ruminations and the alleviation of her depressive and general psychopathology.

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Clinical Section
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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , October 1994 , pp. 325 - 330
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1994

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