| Brain Lock | 
 enlarge | Author: Jeffrey M. Schwartz
Publisher: HarperCollins
Category: Book
List Price: £7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 5268
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st ReganBooks/HarperPerennial Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0060987111
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.85227
EAN: 9780060987114
ASIN: 0060987111
Publication Date: August 28, 1996
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 excellent self-help book March 25, 1998
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The strength of this book lies both in the step by step advice and in the absorbing, well-written stories of people suffering from OCD and how they have turned their lives around. Inspiring stuff. Highly recommended.
Best Book ever on OCD March 9, 1998
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
I do not rate the book as perfect because nothing is perfect, but this book has given me the best understanding yet of this OCD nightmare.He has a wonderful analogy of a broken transmission and he says, all right, the transmission is bad but you can still shift gears, go ahead shift shift now.As for the content of the obsessions, he basically says to take on faith that your imagined terrors are not true. It's not me, you say to yourself, it's only my OCD. My thought, though it seems so real and frightening if I don't do the compulsion to neutralize it, is only a thought, and a mistaken one as that.Do another behavior, reevaluate, and move on.It's hard to do, but his analogy to the car alarm going off when the car is not being stolen makes it nearly possible to see this thing for what it is.The limitation is, how do you dismiss from your mind, maybe this one time alone it is being stolen.Anyway, this doctor is a fabulous writer and he understands the disorder all right.
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