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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder as a Disturbance of Security Motivation.
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The authors hypothesize that the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), despite their apparent nonrationality, have what might be termed an epistemic origin--that is, they stem from an inability to generate the normal "feeling of knowing" that would otherwise signal task completion and terminate the expression of a security motivational system. The authors compare their satiety-signal construct, which they term yedasentience, to various other senses of the feeling of knowing and indicate why OCD-like symptoms would stem from the abnormal absence of such a terminator emotion. In addition, they advance a tentative neuropsychological model to explain its underpinnings. The proposed model integrates many previous disparate observations and concepts about OCD and embeds it within the broader understanding of normal motivation.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Szechtman, H., & Woody, E.
- Venue
- Psychological Review
- Published
- 2004
- Volume
- 111
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 111-127
- ISSN
- 0033-295X (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1471
- OpenAlex
- W1990483036
- Cited by
- 370
- References
- 182
- FWCI
- 17.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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