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The Outcome of Obsessional Disorder a Follow-up Study of 100 Cases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Linton Grimshaw
Linton Grimshaw*
Affiliation:
Bury and Rossendale Hospitals Group
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Obsessions are abnormal mental compulsions. They are experiences with a compelling quality which persistently intrude into consciousness. Though recognized by the patient as an irrational product of his own mind and resisted by him, they are incapable of being expelled. They may be thoughts, images, fears, urges, or acts. An obsessional disorder is one where such symptoms dominate the clinical picture and are not associated with any underlying psychosis.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 111 , Issue 480 , November 1965 , pp. 1051 - 1056
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1965 

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