Getting Control: Overcoming Your Obsessions and Compulsions

Baer, Lee

ISBN 10: 0452297850 / ISBN 13: 9780452297852

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2012

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers I-9780452297852

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Getting Control: Overcoming Your Obsessions and Compulsions
• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0452297850
• ISBN-13: 9780452297852
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: New

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Thoroughly revised and updated—the go-to book for OCD sufferers who want to master their fears and take charge of their lives

The first comprehensive guide to treating obsessive compulsive disorder based on clinically proven behavioral therapy techniques, Dr. Lee Baer’s Getting Control has been providing OCD sufferers with information and relief for more than twenty years. In the same easy-to-understand format as the original, this updated edition includes:

• Cutting-edge behavioral therapy techniques
• Breakthrough advances in neuroscience
• Brand new material on hoarding
• Expanded sections on how families can help OCD sufferers
• The latest diagnostic standards as outlined by the American Psychiatric Association
• A completely revised list of resources

OCD sufferers and their loved ones will find everything they need to assess their symptoms, set realistic goals, and create specific therapeutic exercises for managing this disorder.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Lee Baer, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized expert in the treatment of OCD and related disorders. Author of Getting Control: Overcoming Your Obsessions and Compulsions and The Imp of the Mind, Baer is an associate professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School and the director of research of the OCD unit at Massachusetts General Hospital as well as of the OCD Institute at McLean Hospital.