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- Title
Thought Suppression in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
- Authors
Janeck, Amy S.; Calamari, John E.
- Abstract
The volitional suppression of thoughts and related increases in intrusions has been posited as a model for clinical disorders, including obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Personally relevant, negative intrusive thoughts were elicited from participants with OCD and nonclinical (NC) subjects. The negative thoughts reported by OCD patients were highly related to core clinical obsessions. Participants with OCD reported more intrusive thoughts than did NC subjects regardless of whether they attempted to suppress obsessional intrusions. Group- or experimental-condition related thought enhancement or rebound was not found, but a greater percentage of the OCD suppression group experienced thought rebound than did the NC suppression group. Volitional thought suppression maybe but one of many response strategies employed by individuals with OCD when negative intrusive thoughts occur.
- Subjects
NONSENSE suppression (Genetics); THOUGHT &; thinking; OBSESSIVE-compulsive disorder
- Publication
Cognitive Therapy & Research, 1999, Vol 23, Issue 5, p497
- ISSN
0147-5916
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1018720404750