Main description:

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Uncertainty: Struggling with a Shadow of a Doubt examines the structural and intrapsychic features of the self as it presents within OCD compulsive doubting, and more broadly within OCD compulsion. Specifically, it is situated within the theoretical framework of psychodynamic theory and object-relations theory and aims to elucidate central object-relational paradigms within OCD doubting. Moshe Marcus and Stephen Tuber suggest a broader framework through which to consider the interplay between both the cognitive as well as affective components required to make judgments.

Contents:

Chapter 1: A Kantian Model of Judgment

Chapter 2: Internalization and Superego Development: Contours of the Self

Chapter 3: The Self as the Other: Mead's Account of Internalization and

the Emergence of the Self

Chapter 4: Internalization and the Social Origins of Consciousness in Vygotsky's Model of the Self

Chapter 5: Self-Near and the Self-Alien Elements of Self within Winnicott's Model of Psychological Development

Chapter 6: Implications for Treatment