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OCD and Other Gods

Written by Dr. Christian Komor.
Paperback, 107 pages
$15.00
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Recovery from obsessive compulsive behavior involves more than just medication and behavior therapy. This ground breaking book includes nine additional avenues for recovery including complementary and alternative medicine and self-care and lifestyle change.

Even more importantly, OCD and Other Gods gently assists the reader in understanding the difference between obsessional fears and "core" fears -- the latter of which can fuel compulsive behavior. Methods for moving through core fears to a recovery of self-ownership, spontaneity and the ability to be more fully alive in the moment make this book a must-read for all persons with obsessive compulsive disorders or lifestyles.

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or OCD is a genetically-determined, neuro-behavioral disorder and part of a "spectrum" of neuro-behavioral problems referred to by researchers and clinicians as "OC-Spectrum disorders". These disorders include: Hypochondriasis, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Ticlotrillomania, Compulsive Hoarding, Gilles de Tourettes Disorder, and Self-Mutilation. They have strong commonalities with all compulsive lifestyles including work addiction, Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder, addictive behaviors, and the "hurry-sickness" so prevalent in contemporary society. All of these compulsive disorders and lifestyles share a common fuel that drives them - fear.

In the past OCD and other compulsive disorders were viewed as "neuroses" and treated as symbolic expressions of deep-seated psychodynamic conflicts. In the 1980's the pendulum swung dramatically in the direction of biology, medications, and behavioral interventions designed to change the brain. Now the time has come for a balanced approach to recovery from OC-Spectrum and all compulsive disorders. In the book OCD and Other Gods psychologist, naturopath and author of the internationally selling book The Power of Being (1992) Dr. Christian R. Komor explores the true mind/body nature of compulsive behavior. In so doing he assists the reader in unwrapping the gift of effortless being that lies at the heart of all recovery from compulsive disorders and lifestyles.

With the goal of reclaiming our natural spontaneity and aliveness, OCD and Other Gods presents a multifaceted approach to healing from obsessive and compulsive lifestyles. While acknowledging the importance of traditional interventions such as SRI medication and exposure and response prevention behavior therapy (ERP), the reader is provided with nine additional interlocking elements essential to OC-Spectrum recovery including:

Unique complementary and alternative medicine tools
Preventive self-care and lifestyle skills
Stress and anxiety management techniques
Obsession-inoculation and cognitive restructuring strategies
Pathways for recovering the natural doing-being balance
Techniques for transcending aliveness-blocking fears and personality dynamics
Peer and family support elements
Relapse prevention
Links to educational resources and support organizations

All of these innovations are designed to assist the reader in the central task of transforming both core and obsessional fears and reclaiming the individual's ability to experience spontaneity and the joy of "being".

OCD and Other Gods is must reading for all people with OC-Spectrum Disorders, or who find themselves trapped in any compulsive lifestyle and who wish to recover the keys to aliveness and centered spontaneity that is the paradoxical gift waiting to be unwrapped at the core of compulsion.