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What is it like to feel you must check a dozen times that the gas is turned off before you can leave the house? Or to lock and re-lock the front door the front until you are hours late for work? Do you repeatedly wash your hands until they are chapped and sore? Sufferers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder are often highly intelligent and creative people, but they are slaves to persistent unwanted thoughts, tormented by irrational fears of death and contamination

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library

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Contents; Foreword by Padmal de Silva; Foreword to the first edition by Professor Hans J Eysenck; Preface; Preface to the first edition; 1 Home in Histon; 2 Leaving school; 3 Student life; 4 Denmark -- almost heaven; 5 Signs of trouble ahead; 6 Decline; 7 Getting back to normal; 8 Misplaced complacency; 9 Never get complacent; 10 Going public; 11 The nature of the problem; 12 Overlap and confusion with other conditions; 13 Who develops the disorder, what is it like for them?; 14 Professional help; 15 Self-help -- what to do and what not to do; 16 Trying to solve the puzzle

17 Some famous thoughts18 Conclusion; Glossary; Resources; Index

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