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Rapid Audio-tape Treatment of Obsessional Ruminations. A Case Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Karina Headland  and
Bob McDonald
Karina Headland
Affiliation:
Psychological Treatment Unit, The Maudsley Hospital, London
Bob McDonald
Affiliation:
Psychological Treatment Unit, The Maudsley Hospital, London
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Abstract

An audio-tape technique was used in the treatment of a 35-year-old male with a 13 year history of obsessional rituals and ruminations. His rituals responded to exposure and self-imposed response prevention but the ruminations remained as before.

The audio-tape treatment, which involved him listening to his own voice reciting his ruminative content, resulted in a rapid and substantial reduction in frequency of ruminations and this was maintained to one month follow-up.

The clinical and theoretical implications of this treatment approach are discussed.

Type
Clinical/Brief Reports
Information
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , April 1987 , pp. 188 - 192
Copyright
Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1987

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