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20 Mar 15
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er" is no exception. In the seventeenth century, obsessions and compulsions were often described as symptoms of religious melancholy. The Oxford Don, Robert Burton, reported a case in his compendium, the Anatomy of Melancholy (1621): "If he be in a silent auditory, as at a sermon, he is afraid he shall speak aloud and unaware, something indecent, unfit to be said." In 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down and Connor, Ireland, was referring to obsessional doubting when he wrote of "scruples": [A scruple] is trouble where the trouble is over, a doubt when doubts are resolved." In his 1691 sermon on religious melancholy, John Moore, Bishop of Norwich, England, referred to individuals obsessed by "naughty, and sometimes Blasphemous Thoughts [which] start in their Minds, while they are exercised in the Worship of God [despite] all their endeavours to stifle and suppress them ... the more they struggle with them, the more they encrease."
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15 Mar 11
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In the seventeenth century, obsessions and compulsions were often described as symptoms of religious melancholy.
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obsessional doubting when he wrote of "scruples"
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Modern concepts of OCD began to evolve in the nineteenth century, when Faculty Psychology, phrenology and Mesmerism were popular theories and when "neurosis" implied a neuropathological condition.
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Obsessions, in which insight was preserved, were gradually distinguished from delusions, in which it was not
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Compulsions were distinguished from "impulsions," which included various forms of paroxysmal, stereotyped and irresistible behavior.
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the will, the emotions or the intellect.
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In his 1838 psychiatric textbook, Esquirol (1772-1840) described OCD as a form of monomania, or partial insanity. He fluctuated between attributing OCD to disordered intellect and disordered will.
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In 1877, Westpahal ascribed obsessions to disordered intellectual function. Westphal's use of the term Zwangsvorstellung (compelled presentation or idea) gave rise to our current terminology
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. In Great Britain Zwangsvorstellung was translated as "obsession," while in the United States it become "compulsion." The term "obsessive-compulsive disorder" emerged as a compromise.
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26 Feb 09
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13 Sep 07
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