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Exploration of obsessive compulsive phenomena: a preliminary investigation
S Khanna1, V G Kaliaperumal, S M Channabasavanna
1Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India.
Psychopathology
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
Different dimensions of obsessions and compulsions were explored in 103 obsessions and 60 compulsions recorded from 32 subjects who received a primary diagnosis of obsessive compulsive disorder. Intrusiveness and repetitiveness formed relatively discrete dimensions, while resistance, distress, irrationality, interference and ease of dismissal tended to be associated within themselves. An anxiety-provoking effect was an additional dimension observed among compulsions.