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1Specialist Mental Health Services for Older Persons, Hornsby Hospital, Sydney, NSW, and; Clinical Lecturer, School of Medicine Sydney University Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine Western Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Objectives:
This article discusses Lady Macbeth's famous sleepwalking scene from the Shakespearean tragedy, and how it became used as a template for the formulation of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Conclusions:
Psychoanalysis maintained its role in understanding the condition, despite the lack of evidence base and the repeated finding from many therapists of a failure to control symptomatology. It is suggested that psychodynamic psychotherapy suffered from a failure to recognise what components of its practice were aesthetically attractive concepts rather than evidence-based medicine and outcome measures, and is an important issue in considering its future directions.
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