The Upside of OCD: Flip the Script to Reclaim Your Life [Hardcover]

Many OCD sufferers fail to improve using the standard exposure-response prevention (ERP) treatment. But, as clinical psychologist Michael Alc?e contends, its not the patients who are failing the treatment, but rather the treatment that is failing the patients.
Using vivid case examples, practical exercises, personal anecdotes, and inspiring stories,The Upside of OCDshows sufferers and therapists the creative powers that allow OCD sufferers to see the world with such unique depth, feeling, and intensity.

Using vivid case examples, practical exercises, personal anecdotes, and inspiring stories, The Upside of OCD integrates the best of what's already out there for OCD treatment with a new relational twist that will take your treatment to a whole new level.Michael Alc?e, PhD,is a clinical psychologist in Tarrytown, NY, and mental health educator at the Manhattan School of Music. He is the author ofTherapeutic Improvisation: How to Stop Winging It and Own It as a Therapistand 2019 winner of the American Psychological Associations Division 39 Schillinger Memorial Award. Alc?e has been a TEDx speaker and organizer and regular contributor atPsychology Todayalong with contributions to NPR,The Chicago Tribune, andThe New York Times, among others.

If OCD impacts your life in some way, then this book is a must-read. Bringing together evidence-based research with impactful and often personal stories, Alc?e invites us to fundamentally rethink the nature and approaches to OCD. Everyone with OCD should have a wise, insightful champion like Alc?e. Wendy K. Smith, Dana J. Johnson Professor of Management, University of Delaware

It's about time somebody brought thehuman beingback into OCD. In this readable and entertaining book, Michael Alc?e has put the suffering person at the center of the complex phenomenon we have simplistically reified as OCD. His chatty, personal writing style has a serious, scholarly intl3N