BLOG ABOUT OCD AND ANXIETY

This is a blog about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders and Anxiety. In it you will find a wide variety of articles, by the hand of our psychologists, to help you better understand the symptomatology and the treatment of these two disorders. As a center specializing in OCD and Anxiety, we could not stop sharing our knowledge with those who need it. You will see articles on specific types of OCD, practical guidelines to keep in mind during treatment, and endless resources that can help you better understand them.

However, these articles are not just for those who are in treatment. If a family member or friend suffers from OCD or Anxiety, this blog is also for you. We periodically publish articles on how we can help those close to us

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The meaning of OCD

April 5th, 2017

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August 2nd, 2017

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May 25th, 2017

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Artificial Intelligence, Anxiety and OCD

The emergence of artificial intelligence has generated an ambivalent emotional response: fascination with its capabilities and, at the same time, a diffuse unease about the future. This unease is not new. Every major technological transformation — the Industrial...

The Risks of Overadaptation

Damián Ruiz Adapting is a functional capacity. It enables individuals to coexist, integrate, and operate within complex social systems. However, when adaptation ceases to be strategic and becomes permanent, automatic, and centred on external approval, it turns into...

Treating OCD: addressing anxiety at its root

OCD is an anxiety disorder that manifests through intrusive thoughts and repetitive behaviours aimed at relieving distress. Understanding that OCD is, in essence, an anxiety problem is key to properly guiding its treatment. This anxiety does not arise out of...

OCD Is Not a Cognitive Problem: An Emotional and Integrative Perspective for Its Treatment

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) has traditionally been approached through cognitive-behavioral models that focus on managing intrusive thoughts. From this perspective, the core problem is believed to lie in the dysfunctional interpretation of these thoughts and...

Sexual Orientation OCD and the Creative Process

At RDC-IPITIA Center in Barcelona, we treat OCD from a deep and transformative perspective that focuses on awakening two fundamental forces of psychic life: the aggressive drive and the sexual drive. Far from understanding these concepts in a literal or...

Awakening the Aggressive Drive and the Sexual Drive: An Integrative Approach to OCD Treatment

At RDC-IPITIA Center in Barcelona, we treat OCD from a deep and transformative perspective that focuses on awakening two fundamental forces of psychic life: the aggressive drive and the sexual drive. Far from understanding these concepts in a literal or...

The Warrior Archetype and the Animus: Inner Firmness and the Transformation of Fear in OCD and Anxiety

From the perspective of Carl Gustav Jung’s analytical psychology, psychic suffering is not understood merely as a set of symptoms to be eliminated, but as a meaningful expression of the deeper dynamics of the psyche. In the case of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD)...

What is our methodology based on?

Our working methodology is grounded in a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). We do not see it merely as a set of isolated symptoms, but as the visible expression of a broader psychological conflict. The principles on which...

Why do people perform behavioral rituals?

Damián Ruiz The behavioral ritual, in the patient with OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder), is usually linked to a superstition, that is, to an irrational thought, for example: “I’m still contaminated,” “I can contaminate,” “I may have harmed someone,” “I need to...

Why seek treatment for an obsessive disorder at IPITIA?

Why seek treatment for an obsessive disorder at IPITIA? For the treatment of OCD, there is an “official therapy,” cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), which primarily focuses on symptom management and whose main therapeutic tool is “exposure and response...