The Upside of OCD

Many OCD sufferers fail to improve using the standard exposure-response prevention (ERP) treatment. But, as clinical psychologist Michael Alcée contends, it's not the patients who are failing the treatment, but rather the treatment that is failing the patients.
Using vivid case examples, practical exercises, personal anecdotes, and inspiring stories, The Upside of OCD shows sufferers and therapists the creative powers that allow OCD sufferers to see the world with such unique depth, feeling, and intensity.

Michael Alcée, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in Tarrytown, NY, and mental health educator at the Manhattan School of Music. He is the author of Therapeutic Improvisation: How to Stop Winging It and Own It as a Therapist and 2019 winner of the American Psychological Association's Division 39 Schillinger Memorial Award. Alcée has been a TEDx speaker and organizer and regular contributor at Psychology Today along with contributions to NPR, The Chicago Tribune, and The New York Times, among others.

Introduction: Claiming The Hidden Upside
Chapter 1: OCD Reimagined
Chapter 2: Mapping the Heart of OCD
Chapter 3: All This Good Inside: Masterminding OCD
Chapter 4: OCD Does Your Dirty Work
Chapter 5: Caring for Your Wildness
Chapter 6: Making Meaning in the Face of Death
Chapter 7 Freeing the Muse Within the Critic
Chapter 8: Becoming Yourself With and Beyond Your OCD
Bibliography
Index
About the Author