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Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.85227
EAN: 9780060987114
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 0060987111
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: March 12, 1997
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: January 31, 1997
Studio: Harper Perennial
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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.
In Brain Lock, Jeffrey M. Schwartz presents a simple four-step method for overcoming OCD that is so effective, it's now used in academic treatment centers throughout the world. Proven by brain-imaging tests to actually alter the brain's chemistry, this method doesn't rely on psychopharmaceuticals. Instead, patients use cognitive self-therapy and behavior modification to develop new patterns of response to their obsessions. In essence, they use the mind to fix the brain. Using the real-life stories of actual patients, Brain Lock explains this revolutionary method and provides readers with the inspiration and tools to free themselves from their psychic prisons and regain control of their lives.
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Rating:  - An Answer to Prayer
This book provided my son with the hope and steps he needed to be healed of OCD. We read others, but it was simple enough for this 6th grader to understand with the consistant help of his parents. We practiced each step until there were no more symptoms. Our healthy, bright, social boy was back. It took several months. We were very thankful.
Rating: - Simple, effective, amazing...
After years of psychotherapy and countless medication changes I found it a losing battle that seemed to have no end. My psychiatrist had moved out of town and I was assigned a new psychiatrist. At our first meeting she suggested I sounded like I had OCD. Being that everyone claims to have OCD I was initially thinking "oh great another meaningless diagnosis". She then referred me to a specialist that treats OCD. The specialist recommended this book to me along with the OCD Workbook.
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Rating: - Brain Lock gave me a new life
Please all of you suffers with OCD read the book Brain Lock and practice the 4 steps. I have suffered with OCD for 30 years. This self help book actually will help you change your brain chemistry. Look, OCD is the great doubting disease. I used to doubt everything about myself.But after I read this book I over came much of the doubt. If your thinking about going on disability because its hard to keep a job then get this book. It was my last chance. This guy Schartwz should be the talking head for ... Read More
Rating:  - Unlocking OCD
This is one of several recent good books on OCD. Incidentally they all seem to think the disorder is new to psychiatry and complain of patients having previously been misdiagnosed and mistreated, I think Foa and Foa's book is about the best in general as a self-help book. This is very well written, with Beverly Beyette named as a ghost. There are very long and detailed case histories, which are intensely readable just as stories. Schwartz emphasizes the possibility of an organic etiology. The explanation ... Read More
Rating: - The book that nails it.
This book saved my life. The principles explained here, properly understood and applied, will lead you down the path of recovery from ocd.
You must fully and deeply understand what Dr. Schwartz is saying! A cursory read is not enough. I would highly recommend his audio cd from 2001 entitled "progressive mindfulness" to go along with this book.
As a lifelong sufferer of ocd, this book unlocked the door and my brain.
Thank you Dr. Schwartz!
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