Table of Contents

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1: Take the “On Ramp”
• The Making of the Map
• Clearing the Mind: Not a Bad Joke
• But . . . But . . . But . . .
• Chapter 2: The Disorder of Paradox
• Tourist from Jupiter
• The OCD Group: A Study in Poles Apart?
• Starting to Sort It Out
• We Mammals
• Chapter 3: OCD: Hunting for the Disorder of the Thinking Animal
• The Solution
• Seeing the Problem
• The Scent of the Hunt
• The Hunt
• In the Beginning: Cause and Effect
• As It Might Have Been
• Summary
• Chapter 4: OCD and Homo Religiosus--Religious Man
• The Emergence of Religious Feelings
• Now We Are in Recorded History
• For Christians, The Dividing Line of History Occurs
• The Jewish Track of History
• The Christian Track of History
• Three History-Bending Saints
• implications for Today
• Summary
• Chapter 5: Now It Is Our Turn
• Humility
• Nancy: A Chain of Three
• Marie: The Girl Gang-Tackled by OCD
• Nanette Joyce: A Love of Beauty and a Compulsion to Hoard
• Anne: Wrestling with Shame and Guilt--and Perfection
• Mary: The Little Girl Who Wanted to Marry Jesus
• Lou: Thirty-Five Years in the Dark
• Paul: Poet Laureate of OCD
• What We Can Learn from OCD
• Summary
• Chapter 6: Homo Sapiens Sapiens: We Have Found the Enemy and It Is Us
• The Old Brain
• The Midbrain
• The New Brain
• Adding It All Up
• Chapter 7: Theory Made Practical
• Differential Diagnosis
• Rethinking Diagnosis
• Symptom Selection
• Progression and Regression
• Bagging the Game: Implications of Evolutionary Thinking
• Personality, OCD, and Symptom Creep
• Personal Development
• Pathways to Change
• Chapter 8: Learning From Effecting Change
• We Have Much Experience with What Does Not Work
• We Now Have Some Experience with What Works and Why
• Clean, Clean, Clean Your Carpet, Gently Down Life’s Stream
• Step Ahead
• Theory into Scenario
• Planning for Practice
• We Climbers Now Have a Good Foothold
• Gaining Wisdom from OCD
• Chapter 9: OCD and the Quality of Life
• Loving with Your Heart
• Loving with All Your Mind
• Loving with All Your Strength
• Loving with All the Soul
• Quality of Life: The Need for a Role Model
• Chapter 10: Theologizing in a Neurobiological Age
• Our Past Continues into Our Present
• Implications for Living in the Present
• What Then Can We Affirm?
• The Direction of Human Potential
• Appendix: Available Resources
• Notes
• Index

About the Author

Robert Collie