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      OBSESSIVE
      COMPULSIVE DISORDER 
      
      
      
         Freedom From Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Personalized Recovery 
        Program For Living With Uncertainty  
        by
        
        Jonathan Grayson  
        J. P. Tarcher; (September 25, 2003) 
        A preeminent psychologist's uniquely successful method of understanding 
        and overcoming obsessive-compulsive disorder.  
         
        What would prompt People magazine to include a profile of a Pennsylvania 
        psychologist among its pages of celebrity features? Answer: his 
        groundbreaking treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder, an illness 
        whose six million sufferers are driven by anxiety over life's 
        uncertainties to become enslaved by ritualistic behaviors.  
         
        For more than two decades, Dr. Jonathan Grayson's extraordinary methods 
        have included taking patients at his Philadelphia Anxiety and 
        Agoraphobia Treatment Center on an annual camping trip, during which 
        they participate in activities even non-sufferers would find difficult 
        to endure. They sleep in tents, use latrines without the benefit of 
        running water, and take torturous hikes. Dr. Grayson's remarkably 
        empathetic key to understanding obsessive-compulsive disorder empowers 
        sufferers to not only surmount these challenges but also to make 
        enormous breakthroughs in coping with their behaviors and feelings.
        
        
        
      
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       Obsessive-Compulsive
      Disorders: A Guide to Getting Well and Staying Well 
      by Fred Penzel 
      Oxford University Press, 2000.  
      448 pages. Hardcover:   
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      the NAMI book review 
      
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