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(2016) An experiential approach to psychopathology, Dordrecht, Springer.
This chapter proposes a phenomenological investigation of obsessive-compulsive disorder which progresses from "static understanding', through "genetic understanding' to the "hermeneutic understanding'. The four most important groups are phenomenologically discussed using clinical examples: compulsive checking; compulsive repetition, compulsive orderliness and obsessive thoughts; washing, polishing and cleaning compulsions; and collecting and hoarding. Both in the experience of the person with obsessive-compulsive disorder and in the hermeneutic interpretation of the disorder the fear of death and defense against it, and thus the anthropological dimension of obsessive-compulsive disorder can be recognized.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-29945-7_2
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Bürgy, M. (2016)., Phenomenological investigation of obsessive-compulsive disorder, in G. Stanghellini & M. Aragona (eds.), An experiential approach to psychopathology, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 45-59.
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