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WHY ARE CERTAIN INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS MORE UPSETTING THAN OTHERS?

Abstract

Recent cognitive behavioural models of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) suggest that the misinterpretation of the meaning of intrusive thoughts plays a pivotal role in the escalation of these thoughts to clinical obsessions, but less attention has been paid to why only certain

Authors

Rowa K; Purdon C

Journal

Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 1–11

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Publication Date

January 2003

DOI

10.1017/s1352465803001024

ISSN

1352-4658