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.

• 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

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.