The OCD Workbook: Your Guide to Breaking Free from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (3rd edition).

Author(s): Bruce M. Hyman and Cherry Pedrick

Personality Disorders

If you have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), chances are that your persistent obsessive thoughts and time-consuming compulsions keep you from enjoying life to the fullest. But when you are in the habit of avoiding the things you fear, the idea of facing them head-on can feel frightening and overwhelming. This book can help.


The OCD Workbook has helped thousands of people with OCD break the bonds of troubling OCD symptoms and regain the hope of a productive life. Endorsed and used in hospitals and clinics the world over, this valuable resource is now fully revised and updated with the latest evidence-based approaches to understanding and managing OCD. It offers day-to-day coping strategies you can start using right away, along with proven-effective self-help techniques that can help you maintain your progress.


The book also includes information for family members seeking to understand and support loved ones who suffer from this often baffling and frustrating disorder. Whether you suffer with OCD or a related disorder, such as body dysmorphic disorder or trichotillomania, let this new edition of The OCD Workbook be your guide on the path to recovery. This new edition will help you: Use self-assessment tools to identify your symptoms and their severity Create and implement a recovery strategy using cognitive behavioral self-help tools and techniques Learn about the most effective medications and medical treatments Find the right professional help and access needed support for your recovery Maintain your progress and prevent future relapse


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"This book is exceptional in that it has practical benefits for both obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) sufferers and for clinicians. For sufferers, it serves as a self-help treatment guide for understanding the disorder and using proven treatment techniques to bring about symptom reduction. For clinicians, it serves as a treatment manual that can assist in making the initial diagnosis, identifying the particular OCD subtype, and developing a successful treatment plan." --Paul R. Munford, Ph.D., director of the intensive outpatient treatment program at the Cognitive Behavior Therapy Center for OCD and Anxiety in San Rafael, CA, author of "Overcoming Compulsive Washing""More than just a workbook, this work by Hyman and Pedrick defines and demystifies obsessive-compulsive disorder. In addition, it offers therapists and patients a highly specific and useful treatment program. "The OCD Workbook "should be an important addition to your collection of OCD treatment literature." --Robert H. Ackerman, MSW, clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the State University of New York, Health Science Center at Brooklyn

Bruce M. Hyman, Ph.D., LCSW, is a cognitive therapist in private practice in Hollywood, FL.


Cherry Pedrick, RN, is a registered nurse and freelance writer in Lacey, Washington.

General Fields

  • : 9781572249219
  • : New Harbinger Publications
  • : New Harbinger Publications
  • : October 2010
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Bruce M. Hyman and Cherry Pedrick
  • : Paperback
  • : 1101/3
  • : English
  • : 616.8522706
  • : 352
  • : VS