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Authors: Joseph W. Ciarrocchi
ISBN-13: 9780809135530, ISBN-10: 0809135531
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Paulist Press
Date Published: May 1995
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Joseph W. Ciarrocchi

Book Synopsis

The Doubting Disease by Joseph W. Ciarrocchi brings to the fore the most current information available today on religion and scruples, scrupulosity, and obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD). In this book he helps us clearly appreciate the interior anguish suffered by thousands of people of faith who have this symptomatology and what we can do about it.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword1
1Scrupulosity: An Overview5
2Scruples and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder15
3Scruples: Common and Uncommon32
4Scruples in the History of Pastoral Care48
5Targeting Scruples and Developing Motivation55
6Reducing Obsessional Scruples73
7Reducing Compulsive Scruples87
8Getting Help for Scruples and OCD103
9Technical Asides: Moral Reasoning, Scruples, and the Psychology of Religion113
Appendix A. A Step-by-Step Treatment for Scrupulosity129
Appendix B. Obsessions and Compulsions Checklist148
Notes151
References168
Index179

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