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Ocd As A Dynamical Disease And The Familial Context Of Ritual Rigidity: A Nonlinear Dynamics Perspective, Robert W. Bond

Dissertations (1934 -)

Comparatively few studies of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) have addressed the interpersonal dynamical patterns within families that could exacerbate or quell symptom severity in the ill relatives or hypothesize other roles for familial variables. Furthermore, the extant studies have relied primarily upon linear models. Methodological limitations of linear models, such as assuming that change occurs as the result of unidirectional influences and that the scores obtained for each variable are independent of each other are at variance with temporal, dynamic phenomena and have restricted the empirical investigations of the dynamics of OCD.

The current study investigated whether OCD could be …