The Obsessive and Compulsive Experience: A Narrative Guide

by Boghos I Yerevanian MD

Overview

This book is a wide ranging discussion and analysis of Obsessions and Compulsions written for lay people as well as clinicians. Through vivid clinical descriptions, the author brings together the many elements that make up the fabric of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. He takes the reader through the development of descriptive, psychological, cognitive, behavioral, socio-cultural as well as complex neurobiological aspects of the condition. The patient is the center of his curiosity and deliberations and Dr. Yerevanian draws on many disciplines of human endeavor to understand what afflicts them and to shape a plan of treatment based on understanding their human predicament. In the process, he discusses how a psychiatrist learns and grows by interacting with patients who exhibit difficulties and disturbances in the most crucial human attributes such as thinking, decision making, executive functioning, forming beliefs, assessing danger and reward, modulating emotions and other fundamental human characteristics. Examining OCD not only teaches us about the disorder itself, but about the human mind and the human condition with all its vulnerabilities and strengths.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012293732
Publisher:	Stonefort Press
Publication date:	11/15/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	250
File size:	286 KB

About the Author

Dr. Yerevanian is Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Director of the Mood Disorders Program at the UCLA/SFV Psychiatry Training Program. He is the recipient of the Silver Apple Award as the best clinical teacher in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry at UCLA/SFV Psychiatry Training Program on eight occasions since 1991. He has mentored psychiatric residents and fellows for over 25 years first at the University of Rochester and then at UCLA. He is a fellow of the International Society for Affective Disorders. He is the author of numerous scientific publications and serves as a reviewer for major psychiatric journals in the United States and abroad and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Affective Disorders.

Dr. Yerevanian did his psychiatry training at the University of Tennessee and joined the Faculty of the University of Rochester in 1980. He has been at UCLA since 1991.