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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders in Cambridgeshire

A Follow-up Study of up to 20 Years

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

G. E. Berrios  and
H. Chiu
G. E. Berrios*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
H. Chiu
Affiliation:
University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
*
Addenbrooke's Hospital (Level 4), Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK
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Obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCDs) (ICD-9 = 300.3) (ICD-9, 1978) remain an obscure, heterogeneous, and often unmanageable collection of interfering and repetitive experiences and actions which may interrupt, and occasionally obliterate the flow of behaviour (Beech, 1974; Rachman & Hodgson, 1980; Berrios, 1985; Jenike et al, 1986). Considered during the 19th century as a form of psychosis, OCDs were incorporated at the turn of the century into the psychodynamically redefined class of the ‘neuroses’ (Berrios, 1985). However, this newly gained identity has proved to be heuristically sterile as well as delaying research.

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I. Nosological Aspects
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 154 , Issue S4: Psychiatric Diagnosis: Nosological, Biological and Psychological Aspects , May 1989 , pp. 17 - 20
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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