Can't just stop : an investigation of compulsions

"Mild compulsions, such as shopping with military precision or hanging the tea towels just so, are something most of us have witnessed, or even engaged in. But compulsions exist along a broad continuum, and at the extremes there exist life-altering disorders. Sharon Begley's meticulously r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Begley, Sharon , 1956- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster c2017
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
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Table of Contents:
  • What is a compulsion?
  • 2. Obsessive-compulsive disorder, or,Is Fred in the refrigerator?
  • 3. With treatment, from blood in a snowbank to Hollywood
  • 4. In the shadow of OCD: carrying conscientiousness too far
  • 5. Video games
  • 6. Smartphones and the web
  • 7. Compulsions past
  • 8. Compulsive hoarding
  • 9. Compulsive acquiring or I'll take two
  • 10. Compelled to do good
  • 11. The compulsive brain