[Cognitive behavioural therapy of overvalued ideas in patients suffering of obsessive-compulsive disorder]

In this paper we examined the overvalued ideas in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), because they are considered an impediment to progress in the treatment, particularly for exposure and response prevention interventions (ERP). Maladaptive cognitions in OCD, involving excessive responsibility, over-importance of thoughts, need to control thoughts, overestimation of threat, perfectionism and intolerance for uncertainty is the core of illness. Cognitive change via disputing and education are also the key to symptom remission. Educational, cognitive therapy and ERP approaches are the treatment of choice for OCD.