PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Trichotillomania, Social Anxiety Disorder

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3171
• Professor: Allison Jane Ouimet

Document Summary

**actually used to be part of anxiety disorder in dsm 5. You can have just obsessions or compulsions or both. Recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images that are experienced as intrusive and unwanted. Attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts, urges, or to neutralize them with some other thought or action. Cause lots of anxiety and stress and keep coming back even when don"t want them. Urges: feeling that you need to do something. Doesn"t mean they want to or will do so. Repetitive behaviours or mental acts that the individual feels driven to perform in response to an obsession according to rules that must be applied rigidly. Aimed at preventing/ reducing anxiety distress or preventing a dreaded event. Not connected in realistic way to obsession or are clearly excessive. Don"t have to be something that you can observe. People have an obsession and then they do something which is a compulsion but will bring the obsession back.