Use of Gestalt therapy to diagnose and treat obsession(OCD)

Have you got OCD? Which is short for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?

To what extent, does it cause you trouble in manage your daily life?

From a Cognitive viewpoint, those suffering from OCD, have an overactive tendency to react towards stressful occasions.

However, in the biological sense of the word, OCD is considered to be some sort of a dysfunctional trait of the brain.

Of course, this is the case in those who have had their brain damaged at some point.

Is anyone of your relatives or friends suffering from OCD?

Fortunately, OCD is curable. Various kinds of psychotherapies have shown to be successful in treating anxiety and disabilities related to OCD.

According to the research conducted in this domain, there is an inseparable connection between OCD and other disorders like major depression, movement disorder, sexual addiction, eating disorder, personality disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder and yet the mechanism of this connection is yet to be discovered.

• Almost, half or 3/4 the people suffering from OCD, also suffer from another disorder. Nowadays, Comorbidity is critical matter and this huge amount of comorbidity has made a few wonder whether OCD is another form of Emotional Disorder.

In this course, OCD has been regarded as an emotional disorder.

And the role of repressed emotions and feelings in the cause and the continuation of OCD, and also the aim of therapeutic intervention in decreasing the obsessions have been taken into account. Also, a correct approach of dealing with OCD has been introduced.

Are you familiar with the concept of "Unfinished Business" in psychology?

We all have unfinished businesses or unfinished situation in our lives; some of which go back to our childhood, which still affect our lives.

Are you capable of recognizing the unfinished businesses of your life? Such as repressed emotions, unsatisfied needs…

How much do you know about the effects of an unfinished business on the occurrence of OCD?

From the Gestalt Therapy perspective, as the unfinished businesses in one's life become stronger and more accumulated, they will bring them to their knees on account of overwhelming energy, mental obsession and obsessive behavior.

• In this course, you will find out what role surviving strategies in our childhood, have in promoting an obsessive lifestyle. And how the approaches provided through Gestalt Therapy can have a tremendous effect on your being and action.

• In this course you will learn how to identify emotions and the situation in which the emotions should be expressed and accepted. And then, through your own experience, you'll understand how this approach will decrease the amount of stress you suffer from, through affecting your feelings.

How important and valuable is it to learn how to be able to control your emotion, your thoughts and your behavior?

• This course will guide you through Gestalt therapy approaches and focusing on your unfinished business, and in the end, through a better means of preventing mental rumination.

And also those who want to use this approach for decreasing their own anxiety and mental rumination or that of their patients. 

Note that learning takes place through a process of practice and trial and error. After learning a method, you'll have to practice until it'll be a part of your behavioral characteristics and it'll replace the previous inefficient approach of "being".