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...
Trauma or Overprotection: Triggers of OCD
Trauma or overprotection: The genetic predisposition to suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is not scientifically proven, but it could be possible, given that each individual has areas of greater strength or vulnerability in their DNA composition. However,...
What type of therapy is followed at IPITIA?
The therapy we follow at IPITIA can be considered eclectic and integrative. Eclectic means that we take aspects from different psychological lines, from Theodore Millon’s biopsychosocial theory, from cognitivism, from Carl Gustav Jung’s theory, from...