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Treatment of a Case of Obsessional Neurosis using Thought-Stopping Technique

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

R. S. Stern
R. S. Stern*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, North Middlesex Hospital, London, N.18; Institute of Psychiatry, London, S.E.5
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Introduction Obsessional neurosis is considered to be resistant to behaviour therapy; the literature is reviewed by Marks et al. (1969). Wolpe and Lazarus (1966) described a ‘thought-stopping’ technique for this condition, but subsequent workers have largely ignored this method. In the case to be described, it was used experimentally with apparent success, and in view of the therapeutic nihilism felt about obsessional neurosis it was thought worthwhile to report this long-standing and previously resistant case.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 117 , Issue 539 , October 1970 , pp. 441 - 442
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1970 

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References

Marks, I. M., Crowe, M., Drewe, E., Young, J., and Dewhurst, W. G. (1969). ‘Obsessive compulsive neurosis in identical twins.’ Brit. J. Psychiat., 115, 526, 991–8.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
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