Obsessive-compulsive disorder is probably the psychiatric disorder for which most significant progress has been made on the last 20 years concerning pharmacologic and psychotherapeutic interventions. A number of studies have shown that OCD is much more prevalent than previously thought, occurring in an estimated 2% of the adult population around the world. A serious discrepancy still exists between research evidence and clinical practice and an update of this evidence and an international debate on it, as provided by this volume, is long overdue. This revised edition provides vital information on a considerably underdiagnosed condition.
* Provides accompanying commentaries by an outstanding line up of contributors
* Covers developments in diagnosis, therapy, prognosis, economic evaluation and quality improvement
* Provides an unbiased and reliable reference pointContent:
Chapter 1 Diagnosis of Obsessive?Compulsive Disorder: A Review (pages 1โ41): Professor Ahmed Okasha
Chapter 2 Pharmacological Treatment of Obsessive?Compulsive Disorder: A Review (pages 43โ92): Professor Joseph Zohar, Dr Yehuda Sasson, Dr Miriam Chopra, Dr Daniella Amital and Dr Iulian Iancu
Chapter 3 Psychotherapies for Obsessive?Compulsive Disorder: A Review (pages 93โ146): Professor Edna B. Foa and Dr Martin E. Franklin
Chapter 4 Child and Adolescent Obsessive?Compulsive Disorder: A Review (pages 147โ201): Dr Martine F. Flament and Dr David Cohen
Chapter 5 Obsessive?Compulsive Spectrum Disorders: A Review (pages 203โ252): Dr Eric Hollander and Dr Jennifer Rosen
Chapter 6 Costs of Obsessive?Compulsive Disorder: A Review (pages 253โ299): Professor Martin Knapp, Dr Juliet Henderson and Dr Anita Patel