Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-348) and index.

Part 1 Understanding Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder -- 1 Uncertainty: The Core of OCD 3 -- 2 Causes of OCD: Biology and Learning, Not Biology vs. Learning 14 -- 3 Obsessions and Compulsions: What Sufferers Fear and What Sufferers Do 28 -- 4 Understanding the Role of Medication 41 -- Part 2 Foundation of Your Presuran -- 5 Accepting Uncertainty: Your First Step 51 -- 6 Exposure and Response Prevention: The B in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 60 -- 7 Tools to Counter the Voice of OCD: The C in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 96 -- 8 Designing Your Recovery Program 133 -- Part 3 Persaualling Your Progress: Treatment for Your Specilis OCD Couters -- 9 Contamination: The Obsession That Spreads 155 -- 10 Checking: The Pervasive Compulsion 169 -- 11 Ordering, Symmetry, Counting, and Movement: Rituals of Perfection and Magic 201 -- 12 Primary Mental Obsessions: It Really Is All in Your Mind 218 -- 13 Selected Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders: OCD Problems with Another Name 274 -- Part 4 Recovery and Beyond -- 14 Building Supports for Recovery: Beyond Exposure and Response Prevention 299 -- 15 In Recovery for Life 318.