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Phenomenological Considerations of the World of the Obsessive Patient
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: Received: 24 May 2023 / Approved: 24 May 2023 / Online: 24 May 2023 (14:36:24 CEST)
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Demaria, F.; Pontillo, M.; Bellantoni, D.; Di Vincenzo, C.; Vicari, S. Phenomenological Considerations of the World of the Obsessive Patient. J. Clin. Med. 2023, 12, 4193. Demaria, F.; Pontillo, M.; Bellantoni, D.; Di Vincenzo, C.; Vicari, S. Phenomenological Considerations of the World of the Obsessive Patient. J. Clin. Med. 2023, 12, 4193.
Abstract
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) remains, despite significant scientific progress, a pathological condition that is incomprehensible, due toits paradoxical psychological and behavioral symptoms. The presentwork aims at assessing current phenomenological understandings of this pathology. Among the cognitive models used today, post-rationalist cognitivism and cognitive neuropsychological psychotherapy, which both incorporate a phenomenological approach, seem most effective at grasping OCD patients’ experiences of the world, which are typically characterized by hyper-reflexivity, at the expense of "natural evidence." For OCD patients, the emotional sense of the world becomes a set of sterile rules that determine a suffering life.
Keywords
obsessive patient; suffering; cognitive patterns; phenomenology
Subject
Public Health and Healthcare, Public Health and Health Services
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