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Mental Disorders > Anxiety Disorders > Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Anankastic Personalities
  • Anankastic Personality
  • Neuroses, Obsessive-Compulsive
  • Neurosis, Obsessive Compulsive
  • Neurosis, Obsessive-Compulsive
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Neuroses
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Neurosis
  • Personalities, Anankastic
  • Personality, Anankastic

Note

  • COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER is also available

Scope note

  • An anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent, persistent obsessions or compulsions. Obsessions are the intrusive ideas, thoughts, or images that are experienced as senseless or repugnant. Compulsions are repetitive and seemingly purposeful behavior which the individual generally recognizes as senseless and from which the individual does not derive pleasure although it may provide a release from tension.

History note

  • 81; was NEUROSES, OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE 1963-80; OBSESSION was see under NEUROSES, OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE 1963-78

In other languages

  • pakko-oireinen häiriö

    Finnish

  • anankastinen neuroosi
  • määrittämätön pakko-oireinen häiriö
  • obsessiivis-kompulsiivinen häiriö
  • obsessiivis-kompulsiivinen neuroosi
  • obsessiivis-kompulsiivinen persoonallisuushäiriö
  • ospecificerat tvångssyndrom
  • pakko-oireet
  • pakko-oireinen persoonallisuushäiriö
  • pakkoajatukset
  • pakkoajatus
  • pakkomielle
  • pakkomielteet
  • pakkoneuroosi
  • pertubatio obsessiva-compulsiva
  • perturbatio obsessivo-compulsiva
  • perturbatio obsessivo-compulsiva non specificata
  • tvångssyndrom
  • Tvångssyndrom

    Swedish

  • Anankasmer
  • Obsessiv-kompulsiv störning
  • OCD

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D009771

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