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‘
Kurt Gödel
',
H. Szechtman and E. Woody, ‘Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder as a Disturbance of Security Motivation',
Psychological Review
, 111 (2004), pp. 111−27.

TWO:
Bad thoughts

‘
survey after survey
',
P. Salkovskis and J. Harrison, ‘Abnormal and Normal Obsessions: A Replication',
Behaviour Research and Therapy
, 22 (1984), pp. 549–52.

‘
off the road
',
C. Purdon and D. Clark, ‘Obsessive Intrusive Thoughts in Nonclinical Subjects: Part 1. Content and Relation with Depressive, Anxious and Obsessional Symptoms',
Behaviour Research and Therapy
, 31 (1993), pp. 713−20.

‘
high-place phenomenon
',
J. Hames
et al
., ‘An Urge to Jump Affirms the Urge to Live: An Empirical Examination of the High Place Phenomenon',
Journal of Affective Disorders
, 136 (2012), pp. 1114–20.

‘
Stanley Rachman
',
S.
Rachman and P. de Silva, ‘Abnormal and Normal Obsessions',
Behaviour Research and Therapy
, 16 (1978), pp. 233−48.

‘
Winston Churchill
',
I. Osborn,
Tormenting Thoughts and Secret Rituals
(DTP, 1999), pp. 56−7.

‘
idea generator
',
D. Clark and S. Rhyno, ‘Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts in Nonclinical Individuals', in D. Clark,
Intrusive Thoughts in Clinical Disorders
(Guildford Press, 2005), pp. 18−19.

‘
Mozart … Beethoven
',
S.
Rachman and R. Hodgson,
Obsessions and Compulsions
(Prentice Hall, 1980), pp. 10−11.

‘
Arnold Schwarzenegger
',
N.
Berman
et al
., ‘The “Arnold Schwarzenegger Effect”: Is Strength of the “Victim” Related to Misinterpretations of Harm Intrusions?',
Behaviour Research and Therapy
, 50 (2012), pp. 761−6.

‘
under stress
',
L.
Parkinson and S. Rachman, ‘Part III – Intrusive Thoughts: The Effects of an Uncontrived Stress',
Advances in Behaviour Research and Therapy
, 3 (3) (1981), pp. 111−18.

‘
Tolstoy
',
R. Bartlett,
Tolstoy: A Russian Life
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011), p. 53.

‘
Playboy
',
D.
Wegner and D. Schneider, ‘The White Bear Story',
Psychological Inquiry
, 14 (2003), pp. 326−9.

‘
Worst Thing
',
D. Wegner, ‘How to Think, Say, or Do Precisely the Worst Thing for Any Occasion',
Science
, 325 (3 July 2009), pp. 48−50.

‘
Tolstoy trial
',
D. Wegner
et al
., ‘Paradoxical Effects of Thought Suppression',
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
, 53 (1987), pp. 5−13.

‘
quit cigarettes
',
B. Toll
et al
., ‘The Relationship Between Thought Suppression and Smoking Cessation',
Addictive Behaviors
, 26 (2001), pp. 509−15.

‘
obese
',
B.
Soetens and C. Braet, ‘The Weight of a Thought: Food-Related Thought Suppression in Obese and Normal-Weight Youngsters',
Appetite
, 46 (2006), pp. 309−17.

‘
resurface in a dream
',
R. Bryant
et al
., ‘Dream Rebound of Suppressed Emotional Thoughts: The Influence of Cognitive Load',
Consciousness and Cognition
, 20 (2011), pp. 515−22.

‘
mental processes
',
D. Wegner, ‘Ironic Processes of Mental Control',
Psychological Review
, 101 (1) (1994), pp. 34–52.

‘
Wasmeier
',
J. Beckmann, interview with author (11 January 2012).

‘
odd and meaningless rituals
',
P. Muris
et al
., ‘Abnormal and Normal Compulsions',
Behavioural Research and Therapy
,
35 (3) (1997), pp. 249−52.

‘
worms
',
M.
Nguyen
et al
., ‘A Case of Severe Adolescent Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Treated with Inpatient Hospitalisation, Risperidone and Sertraline',
Journal of Behavioral Addictions
, 1 (2) (2012), pp. 78−82.

‘
Eddie
',
W. Marshall and C. Langton, ‘Unwanted Thoughts and Fantasies Experienced by Sexual Offenders', in D. Clark (ed.),
Intrusive Thoughts in Clinical Disorders
(Guildford Press, 2005), pp. 206−7.

‘
Mike … Jennifer
',
G. Doron
et al
., ‘Flaws and All: Exploring Partner-Focused Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms',
Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
,
1 (2012), pp. 234−43.

‘
Israel … Jack
',
G. Doron
et al
., ‘Tainted Love: Exploring Relationship-Centred Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms in Two Non-clinical Cohorts',
Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
,
1 (2012), pp. 16−24.

‘
Nanaimo Correctional Centre
',
M. O'Neill
et al
., ‘Intrusive Thoughts and Psychopathy in a Student and Incarcerated Sample',
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
, 40 (2009), pp. 147−57.

THREE:
The mademoiselle and the Rat Man

‘
Aids-phobia
',
M.
Jenike and C. Pato, ‘Disabling Fear of AIDS Responsive to Imipramine',
Psychosomatics
, 27 (1986), pp. 143−4.

‘
Munich
',
Proceedings published as
H. Jäger,
Aids Phobia: Disease Patterns and Possibilities of Treatment
(Ellis Horwood, 1988).

‘
syphilis-phobia
',
F. Cormia, ‘Syphilophobia and Allied Anxiety States',
The Canadian Medical Association Journal
(October, 1938), pp. 361−6.

‘
asbestos
',
P. de Silva, ‘Culture and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder',
Clinical Conditions
(2006), pp. 402−4.

‘
it was HIV
',
J. Rapoport,
The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing
(Penguin, 1991), pp. 161−4.

‘
climate change
',
M. Jones
et al
., ‘The Impact of Climate Change on Obsessive Compulsive Checking Concerns',
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
, 46 (3) (2012), pp. 265−70.

‘
Andy Warhol
',
B. Dillon,
Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives
(Penguin, 2010),
pp. 255−261.

‘
Warrington
',
D. Walton and M. Mather, ‘The Application of Learning Principles to the Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive States in the Acute and Chronic Phases of Illness',
Behaviour Research and Therapy
, August (1963), pp. 163−74.

‘
coffins
',
J. Bondeson,
Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear
(W. W. Norton, 2002), p. 118.

‘
Washington … Chopin
',
L. Dossey, ‘The Undead: Botched Burials, Safety Coffins and the Fear of the Grave',
Explorations
, July/August 2007, pp. 347−54.

‘
Nobel
',
www.nobelprize.org/alfred_nobel/will/will-full.html
.

‘
mad disease
',
S. Freud,
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
(1920), p. 220.

‘
Lanzer
',
S. Freud,
Notes upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis
(1909).

‘
Ernest Jones
',
E. Jones,
Sigmund Freud Life and Work, Vol. 2: Years of Maturity 1901−1919
(The Hogarth Press, 1958), p. 42.

‘
Sulloway
',
F. Sulloway, ‘Reassessing Freud's Case Histories',
Isis
,
82 (1991), pp. 245−75.

‘
Mademoiselle F
',
J. Esquirol,
Mental Maladies: A Treatise on Insanity
(Lea and Blanchard, 1845/1938), pp. 348−51.

‘
To see madhouses
',
quoted in J. Goldstein,
Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century
(University of Chicago Press, 1987), p.141.

‘
field of law
',
J. Goldstein, ‘Professional Knowledge and Professional Self-Interest: The Rise and Fall of Monomania in 19th-Century France',
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry
, 21 (1998), pp. 385−96.

‘
Harrington Tuke
',
H. Tuke, ‘Monomania and Homicide',
The Lancet
(12 October 1867), pp. 472−3.

‘
Newgate
', J. Gibson, ‘Bordier's Case',
The Lancet
(2 November 1867), pp. 567−8.

FOUR:
An emerging obsession

‘
UK government
',
www.dh.gov.uk/health/category/policy-areas/social-care/mental-health
.

‘
Tavistock Clinic
',
J.
Sandler and A. Hazari, ‘The “Obsessional”: On the Psychological Classification of Obsessional Character Traits and Symptoms',
British Journal of Medical Psychology
, 33 (1960), pp. 113−22.

‘
bowel movements
',
See for example E. Hetherington and Y. Brackbill, ‘Etiology and Covariation of Obstinacy, Orderliness and Parsimony in Young Children',
Child Development
, 34 (1963), pp. 919−43.

‘
Selfridges
',
L. Warren, ‘The OCD Chopping Board with Etched Lines for a Perfectionist',
Daily Mail
online (1 September 2011),
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2032812/The-OCD-chopping-board-etched-lines-perfectionist.html
.

‘
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder for Dummies
',
C.
Elliot and L. Smith,
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder for Dummies
(Wiley, 2008).

‘
Zohar
',
D. Stein and N. Fineberg,
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
(Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 10.

‘
Yale-Brown
',
W. Goodman
et al
., ‘The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale',
Archives of General Psychiatry
, 46 (1989), pp. 1006−16.

‘
all white here
',
‘Cricket: West Indies Seeing Red Over “All White” Slogan',
New Zealand Herald
(23 November 2008).

‘
cannabis
',
L.
Arseneault
et al
., ‘Cannabis Use in Adolescence and Risk for Adult Psychosis: Longitudinal Prospective Study',
British Medical Journal
, 325 (2002), pp. 1212−13.

‘
quarter of the cohort
',
M. Fullana
et al
., ‘Obsessions and Compulsions in the Community: Prevalence, Interference, Help-Seeking, Developmental Stability and Co-occurring Psychiatric Conditions',
American Journal of Psychiatry
, 166 (3) (2009), pp. 329−36.

‘
Belgium
',
M. Fullana
et al
., ‘Obsessive-Compulsive Symptom Dimensions in the General Population: Results from an Epidemiological Study in Six European Countries',
Journal of Affective Disorders
, 124 (2010), pp. 291−9.

‘
two-week spell
',
A. Ruscio
et al
., ‘The Epidemiology of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication',
Molecular Psychiatry
,
15 (2010), pp. 53−63.

‘
Murray Stein
',
M. Stein, ‘Worrying About Obsessions and Compulsions',
American Journal of Psychiatry
,
166 (March 2009), pp. 271−3.

‘
pure-O
',
See
www.ocduk.org/pure-o
.

‘
just-not-right
',
C. Sica
et al
., ‘“Not Just Right Experiences” Predict Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms in Non-clinical Italian Individuals: A One-Year Longitudinal Study',
Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
, 1 (2012), pp. 159−67.

‘
high-place phenomenon
',
J. Hames
et al
. ‘An Urge to Jump Affirms the Urge to Live: An Empirical Examination of the High Place Phenomenon',
Journal of Affective Disorders
,
136 (2012), pp. 1114−20.

‘
dentist
',
L. Altman, ‘AIDS and a Dentist's Secrets',
New York Times
, 6 June 1993,
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/06/weekinreview/aids-and-a-dentist-s-secrets.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
.

‘
Concordia
',
A. Radomsky
et al
., ‘Repeated Checking Really Does Cause Memory Distrust',
Behaviour Research and Therapy
, 44 (2006), pp. 305−16.

‘
two checks
',
M. Coles
et al
., ‘Exploring the Boundaries of Memory Distrust from Repeated Checking: Increasing External Validity and Examining Thresholds',
Behaviour Research and Therapy
, 44 (2006), pp. 995−1006.

‘
to stare
',
M. Van den Hout
et al
., ‘Uncertainty About Perception and Dissociation After Compulsive-like Staring: Time Course of Effects',
Behaviour Research and Therapy
, 47 (2009), pp. 535−9.

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