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Brain lock : free yourself from obsessive-compulsive behavior: a four-step self-treatment method to change your brain chemistry / Jeffrey M. Schwartz with Beverly Beyette.

by Schwartz, Jeffrey, 1951-

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Harper Perennial, 2016.

616.85227 S399b

Obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Compulsive behavior.

Psychology -- Psychopathology -- Compulsive Behavior.

9780062561435 (pbk.)

Twentieth anniversary ed.

xlix, 219 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

With a new preface by the author.

Preface to the twentieth anniversary edition -- Introduction: Obsessions, compulsions, and the four-step self-treatment method -- The four steps. Relabel -- Reattribute -- Refocus -- Revalue -- Applying the four steps to your life. The four steps and personal freedom -- OCD as a family disorder -- The four steps and other disorders -- The four steps and traditional approaches to behavior therapy -- OCD and medication -- University of Hamburg Obsession-Compulsion inventory screening form -- An OCD patient's diary of four-step self-treatment -- Self-treatment manual for the four-step method.

An estimated 5 million Americans suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and live diminished lives in which they are compelled to obsess about something or to repeat a similar task over and over. Traditionally, OCD has been treated with Prozac or similar drugs. The problem with medication, aside from its cost, is that 30 percent of people treated don't respond to it, and when the pills stop, the symptoms invariably return.

Beyette, Beverly.

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