Freedom from obsessive-compulsive disorder : a personalized recovery program for living with uncertainty / Jonathan Grayson, PhD.

Includes index.

Uncertainty: the core of OCD -- Causes of OCD: biology and learning, not biology vs. learning -- Obsessions and compulsions: what sufferers fear and what sufferers do -- Understanding the role of medication -- Accepting uncertainty: your first step -- Exposure and response prevention: the B in cognitive behavioral therapy -- Tools to counter the voice of OCD: the C in cognitive behavioral therapy -- Designing your recovery program -- Contamination: the obsession that spreads -- Checking: the pervasive compulsion -- Ordering, symmetry, counting, and movement: rituals of perfection and magic -- Primary mental obsessions: it really is all in your mind -- Selected obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders: OCD problems with another name -- Building supports for recovery: beyond exposure and response prevention -- In recovery for life.