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Title: | Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder as a Disturbance of Security Motivation. |
Authors: | Szechtman H Woody E |
Department: | Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences |
Keywords: | Affect;Animals;Cues;Humans;Internal-External Control;Knowledge;Models, Psychological;Motivation;Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder;Reality Testing;Satiety Response |
Publication Date: | Jan-2004 |
Publisher: | American Psychological Association (APA) |
Abstract: | 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. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/26796 |
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: | https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295x.111.1.111 |
ISSN: | 0033-295X 1939-1471 |
Appears in Collections: | Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences Publications |
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