Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Uncertainty

Moshe Marcus is postdoctoral fellow at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute and the William Alanson White Institute.Steven Tuber is director of clinical training and program director of the doctoral program in clinical psychology at the City College of New York.

Don’t be fooled by the modesty of the title—this volume covers a vast scope, starting from philosophical ideas about doubt and certainty, moving through object relations theory and psycholinguistics, and arriving at very specific and well-grounded recommendations for the psychodynamic therapy of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Along the way, Moshe Marcus and Steven Tuber describe a psychoanalytically informed view of OCD which offers an empathic and nuanced understanding of how and why people suffer from this crippling disorder.

• Chapter 1: A Kantian Model of Judgment Chapter 2: Internalization and Superego Development: Contours of the Self Chapter 3: The Self as the Other: Mead’s Account of Internalization and the Emergence of the SelfChapter 4: Internalization and the Social Origins of Consciousness in Vygotsky’s Model of the SelfChapter 5: Self-Near and the Self-Alien Elements of Self within Winnicott’s Model of Psychological DevelopmentChapter 6: Implications for Treatment