ERIC Number: EJ688563
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Publication Date: 2004-Jan
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder as a Disturbance of Security Motivation
Szechtman, Henry; Woody, Erik
Psychological Review, v111 n1 p111-127 Jan 2004
The authors hypothesize that the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), despite their apparent nonrationality, have what might be termed an epistemic origin-that is, they stem from an inability to generate the normal "feeling of knowing" that would otherwise signal task completion and terminate the expression of a security motivational system. The authors compare their satiety-signal construct, which they term yedasentience, to various other senses of the feeling of knowing and indicate why OCD-like symptoms would stem from the abnormal absence of such a terminator emotion. In addition, they advance a tentative neuropsychological model to explain its underpinnings. The proposed model integrates many previous disparate observations and concepts about OCD and embeds it within the broader understanding of normal motivation.
Descriptors: Motivation, Emotional Response, Emotional Disturbances, Neuropsychology, Cognitive Processes
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