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Obsessional Modernity: The "Institutionalization of Doubt".

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العنوان: Obsessional Modernity: The "Institutionalization of Doubt".
المؤلفون: Fleissner, Jennifer L.
المصدر: Critical Inquiry; Autumn2007, Vol. 34 Issue 1, p106-134, 29p
مصطلحات موضوعية: OBSESSIVE-compulsive disorder, COMPULSIVE behavior, MODERNITY, DEFENSE mechanisms (Psychology), PSYCHOANALYSIS
مستخلص: An essay is presented about obsessional modernity, specifically on pronounce obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It offers works that grant surprising richness to symptoms related only with gray self-denial of imposed routine. OCD moved steadily away from its long-held construal as a defense mechanism against buried conflicts and toward its present conception as a malfunction in the brain's basal ganglia. Study shows that there has been a threefold increase in OCD publications since the 1980s.
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