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In The Imp of the Mind, a leading expert on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder explores the hidden epidemic that afflicts millions of Americans.
In the first book to fully examine obsessive bad thoughts, Dr. Lee Baer combines the latest research with his own extensive experience in treating this widespread syndrome. Drawing on information ranging from new advances in brain technology to pervasive social taboos, Dr. Baer explores the root causes of bad thoughts, why they can spiral out of control, and how to recognize the crucial difference between harmless and dangerous bad thoughts.
An illuminating and accessible guide to the kinds of thoughts that create extreme fear, guilt, and worry, The Imp of the Mind provides concrete solutions to a tormenting and debilitating disorder. Including special sections on the prescription medications that have proven effective, it is "a beautifully written book that can be a great help to people who want to know what to do about obsessions" (Isaac Marks, M.D., author of Living with Fear: Understanding and Coping with Anxiety).
In the first book to fully examine obsessive bad thoughts, Dr. Lee Baer combines the latest research with his own extensive experience in treating this widespread syndrome. Drawing on information ranging from new advances in brain technology to pervasive social taboos, Dr. Baer explores the root causes of bad thoughts, why they can spiral out of control, and how to recognize the crucial difference between harmless and dangerous bad thoughts.
An illuminating and accessible guide to the kinds of thoughts that create extreme fear, guilt, and worry, The Imp of the Mind provides concrete solutions to a tormenting and debilitating disorder. Including special sections on the prescription medications that have proven effective, it is "a beautifully written book that can be a great help to people who want to know what to do about obsessions" (Isaac Marks, M.D., author of Living with Fear: Understanding and Coping with Anxiety).
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Lee Baer, Ph.D, is an internationally recognized expert in the treatment of OCD and related disorders. The author of Getting Control: Overcoming Your Obsessions and Compulsions, Dr. Baer is an associate professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School and the director of research of the OCD unit at Massachusetts General Hospital as well as the OCD Institute at McLean Hospital.
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As a Chartered Psychologist (Milton Keynes) specialising in CBT, I can strongly recommend this book. I recommend it to all clients who experience this very common but all too infrequently discussed type of OCD. All my clients who have read it, tell me that it has eased their fear and enabled them to move forward with the problem.
This excellent book concerns the infrequently discussed but very common type of OCD where people experience 'bad thoughts'. For example, a mother who has obsessions about hurting her baby, or a man with who feels very guilty because he has intrusive thoughts that he might purposely run someone over in his car or sexually abuse someone.
It is important to realise that these are very common types of OCD and also very common thoughts in people who don't have OCD (its just that people without OCD don't dwell on them and don't feel guilty about them).
The book is excellently written and clients frequently say that they read it in a day. If you are distressed by this type of OCD then this is the best book to address the issue.
This excellent book concerns the infrequently discussed but very common type of OCD where people experience 'bad thoughts'. For example, a mother who has obsessions about hurting her baby, or a man with who feels very guilty because he has intrusive thoughts that he might purposely run someone over in his car or sexually abuse someone.
It is important to realise that these are very common types of OCD and also very common thoughts in people who don't have OCD (its just that people without OCD don't dwell on them and don't feel guilty about them).
The book is excellently written and clients frequently say that they read it in a day. If you are distressed by this type of OCD then this is the best book to address the issue.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a powerful and insightful book, which as someone who has seen but not experienced first-hand, the misery that OCD can inflict, allowed me a brilliant opportunity to understand. This is paramount to appreciating and supporting those with OCD. Importantly, 'Imp of the Mind' focuses on the type of OCD which causes sufferers to experience 'bad thoughts' rather than the stereotypical, perhaps more widely known perception that OCD is all about repetitive actions.
I am grateful to this book for its explanations and insights, and really feel it should be compulsory reading.
I am grateful to this book for its explanations and insights, and really feel it should be compulsory reading.
97 of 102 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is very well written. It is clear, supportive, and allows OCD sufferers such as myself
to better understand the nature of our problems and ways to overcome them. Mostly, I think,
the book is a great lesson on the human condition and the strains that, so many times, we put ourselves in inexplicably trying to go beyond what is physically and psychologically possible
to ascertain. I was waiting for a book that concerned itself with this particular kind of OCD
symptoms and I can say that finally I found it and that it provided me with very good lessons and support.
to better understand the nature of our problems and ways to overcome them. Mostly, I think,
the book is a great lesson on the human condition and the strains that, so many times, we put ourselves in inexplicably trying to go beyond what is physically and psychologically possible
to ascertain. I was waiting for a book that concerned itself with this particular kind of OCD
symptoms and I can say that finally I found it and that it provided me with very good lessons and support.
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Fantastic book
I bought this book for my daughter studying psychology degree - she read it in one night! She said it was "the best"
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Lee Bauer's "The Imp of the Mind" is a valuable resource for those suffering from "pure O" or thought-related OCD such as myself. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Eric Blair
Good resource
I think I had too high expectations of this book. I did find it a great resource for OCD sufferers but I found it a bit limited in terms of the forms that OCD, especially pure... Read more
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