The Versatility and Effectiveness of OCD Therapy
The Versatility and Effectiveness of OCD Therapy
The increasing prevalence of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) has reinforced the necessity among people to understand the versatile OCD therapy options that are available today. We have brought up the major ODC therapy options that are in vogue today so as to enable you to understand about their efficacy and viability in detail.
Psycho-Analysis
OCD is believed to be contained in the spectrum between the problems of obsessive compulsive personality to Psychosis. As such, the psychoanalytic therapy is believed to be an OCD treatment option. However, this entails the therapist to examine the patient and wait for an inexplicably long duration till the patient himself attains the state of divine manifestation or revelations.
Give the fact that this therapy involves enormous time and efforts both from the side of the therapist and the patient; it is becoming obsolete and is not considered as an effective OCD treatment methodology.
Psycho-Dynamic Therapy
This has been a very promising OCD treatment alternative. This entails a quicker response from the patient and it is relatively better than the psychoanalysis technique that took unlimited timeframe for visible responses. It is a successor the psychoanalysis technique and usually constitutes 25 interactive sessions with the therapist. It is conducted with the aim of unveiling the concealed motives hidden in the patient’s mind thereby acquiring perceptivity.
However, bringing out the concealed motives does not resolve the problem of OCD. It goes beyond that and requires the art of learning to live or cope with the anxious feelings that arise out of those concealed motives or intuitions. So, it is imperative that this OCD treatment has to be given in parallel with CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which is the latest and the most popular among the OCD therapies in existence today.
Cognitive Therapy
Cognition refers to the power of identification. The cognitive therapy entails the identification of the hidden motives/intuitions and obsessions in the mind of the patient with the help of a renowned and experienced therapist.
Once the motives are brought to light, a correction in behavior is often mandatory.
A mere cognitive therapy cannot help in curing an OCD patient. Behavioral corrections are a must and cognitive therapy has to be followed by behavioral corrections to completely get rid of this ailment.
Behavioral Therapy
OCD treatment using CBT is often given the term ERP, Exposure Response/Ritual Prevention. ERP OCD therapy entails the patients’ meticulous efforts in getting his irrational thoughts and compulsive routines corrected with the help of his therapist. Though this process takes a bit of time, the patient starts to live with the anxiousness that comes up with those intuitive feelings. With time, he understands the irrationality behind his intuitive thoughts and gets rid of them in the long run which in turn facilitates the disappearance of the repetitive behaviors that were associated with those irrational feelings he had been having in the past.
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