Alfred Adler's Obsession Compulsion Disorder

Introduction Until recently, Obsession Compulsion Disorder was considered a rare disorder for an individual to be diagnosed with. In previous DSM’s, Obsession Compulsion Disorder was classified as an anxiety disorder; however, recently in the DSM-V, Obsession Compulsion Disorder and anxiety were removed from the same realm, giving OCD its own section. Added to the DSM-V section of OCD were many sub-groups, such as body dysmorphic disorder, trichotillomania, and excoriation disorder (Stein et al, 2010). In contemporary time, rituals such as hand washing have resulted from obsessions, where they started from a religious view and later turned into a medial view. Towards the early and mid 1900’s, a shift in what was called obsession neurosis …show more content…
Adler believed that OCD symptoms were the mind’s response to a quantity of components that were constituted on a psychosocial level in the later part of the 1800’s (…….). Adlerian’s believed that people were not psychotically sick, but discouraged; just like the process of psychotherapy, they believed it was a process of encouragement, rather than a process or “curing” (…..). From an Adlerian based intervention, there are three treatment modalities and psychotherapeutic perspectives used with various individuals depending on their severity or symptoms of obsession-compulsion disorder, of which Adler believed reduced anxiety and OCD symptoms (….…). Adler stated that OCD was treated by three concepts: therapeutic encouragement, Social Interest (SI), and the life style analysis (LSA). Being a fundamental treatment modality and psychotherapeutic perspective, the Adlerian approach explains that therapeutic encouragement is to create client relationships, have a central point on strength, and build self-esteem (……). Adlerians believe SI leads to mental health. ….. goes more in-depth on the Adlerian approach on therapeutic encouragement within OCD, stating that it is to help foster courage as well