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Obsessive–Compulsive Disorders

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Obsessive–compulsive disorders (OCD) are recurrent and persistent thoughts, behavioral patterns, ideas, and impulses/urges that impose themselves against internal resistance and are experienced by the patient as senseless (for specification of insight in the disorder, please see below), excessive, or distressing.

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  1. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Florentine-Eichler-Str. 1, 51067, Köln, Germany

    Christoph Wewetzer MD

  2. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Neumuensterallee 9, 1482, 8032, Zurich, Switzerland

    Susanne Walitza MD

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Wewetzer, C., Walitza, S. (2014). Obsessive–Compulsive Disorders. In: Gerlach, M., Warnke, A., Greenhill, L. (eds) Psychiatric Drugs in Children and Adolescents. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1501-5_21

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