Religious compulsions and the spectrum concept of psychopathology.
The authors present a clinical description of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) among a unique population of patients with religious compulsions. Analysis of 2 cases demonstrates that OCD represents a psychopathological spectrum, varying along a continuum of insight and resistance. Associated clinical features together with diagnostic and treatment implications are considered.
Geha Psychiatric Hospital, Beilinson Medical Center, Petah Tiqva, Israel.
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Munitz
D000328:Adult; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D003702:Delusions / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007599:Judaism; D008297:Male; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D012069:Religion and Psychology