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Compulsions and cultural rituals: The need for a drive-motivational framework

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2007

Ralf-Peter Behrendt
Ralf-Peter Behrendt*
Affiliation:
MRC Psychiatry, The Retreat Hospital, York, YO10 5BN, United Kingdom
*
rp.behrendt@btinternet.com
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Abstract

Instinct theory parsimoniously clarifies the relationships between emotions, such as fear and anxiety, and perceptions, thoughts, and actions. Its acceptance allows more elegant insights into riddles of obsessions and compulsions. Their relationship to anxiety and dysexecutive function needs to be explained, as does their characteristic egodystonia, while avoiding the pitfalls of cognitivist, empiricist, and teleological thinking.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 6 , December 2006 , pp. 614 - 615
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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