Treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Lata K. McGinn, Ph.D., is director of the Cognitive Behavior Therapy Program and clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. William C. Sanderson, Ph.D., is associate professor of psychology at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Drs. McGinn and Sanderson have done an excellent job of writing an empirically validated treatment manual for obsessive-compulsive disorder. This volume integrates the most widely researched cognitive-behavioral treatments for OCD into one comprehensive therapy guide. The book is clinically detailed, with a step-by-step explanation of each phase in the assessment and treatment of OCD. The guide includes one extended case study, with detailed session transcripts, that runs throughout the book and illustrates how to implement each treatment strategy. The book is very readable, both for clinicians who are already experienced with OCD and for those who are just beginning. I highly recommend it.