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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Publications

Updated 15-Aug-2007

Articles

Collections of Articles

• Don't Think About Monkeys On-Line Magazine - is mostly devoted to TS, but it includes some OCD-related articles:
  • "Tears and Triumphs of a Young Soul" - excerpts from the journal of Michael Chapman, a youngster diagnosed with TS and OCD.
  • "Therapy Approaches, Part One" - John S. Hilkevich, M.A. (now Ph.D.!), on therapeutic advocates.
• HealthyPlace OCD Community Conference Transcripts (of on-line chats, moderated by David Roberts and with questions from the audiences):
  • "Getting the Best Treatment For OCD" - with Dr. Gerald Tarlow.
  • "Getting Control of Your Obsessions and Compulsions" - with Dr. Lee Baer.
  • "What To Do About the Obsessions Part of OCD" - with Dr. Michael Jenike.
  • "Anxiety and OCD Medications" - with Dr. Carol Watkins.
  • "OCD and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy" - with Dr. Michael Gallo.
  • "OCD Medications and Therapy" - with Dr. Alan Peck.
  • "How to Help Patients with OCD" - with James Claiborn, Ph.D.
• InteliHealth - home of Johns Hopkins Health Information, has links to some articles on OCD. (You might need to register first, but access is free.)
• Internet Mental Health: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - has, on-line, a number of OCD articles originally published in The Harvard Mental Health Letter.
• Mental Health for Teens - has articles by Elizabeth Drucker on her experiences as a teen suffering from OCD and other anxiety disorders.
• OCD - is a small collection of essays on OCD and the movie, As Good As It Gets. Click on the .HTM files to see the essays. (The links in the Table of Contents don't work.)
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - Suite101.com - is a collection of columns by Cherlene Pedrick, R.N.; the site also features links to OCD resources on the Internet and its own web-based discussion group.
• OCD Support Group of New Zealand - has its newsletters on-line in PDF format.
• Pediatric Psychiatry Pamphlets - Dr. Jim Chandler's comprehensive overviews of various childhood anxiety disorders, including OCD. An essential site for parents of children who suffer from anxiety disorders.
• Western Suffolk Psychological Services - has a collection of articles on OCD, trichotillomania, depression, etc. Many of the articles are by Dr. Fred Penzel, a frequent contributor to the OCF Newsletter.

Individual Articles

• "All in the Family: OCD May Be Inherited" - Diana Ballon in the Journal of Addiction and Mental Health.
• "Altered Gene Increases Men's Risk for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" (The Rockefeller University News)
• "Blood Test can Identify Children with Strep-Related Behavior Disorders" - announces a new blood test (still in the research stages) that can be used to determine if children are predisposed to developing OCD and similar, strep-induced disorders.
• "The Chemistry of Obsession" - Josie Glausiusz in Discover Magazine.
• "Chicago Researcher Looks for Genes Underlying Psychiatric Diseases of Childhood" - describes investigations by Dr. Edwin Cook, Jr. into the genetic bases of psychiatric disorders such as autism, ADHD, and OCD. (Perkin-Elmer Applied Biosystems)
• "Children and OCD" - transcript of a question-and-answer session with Dr. Caryn Schorr, medical director of Pediatric Psychiatry for South Broward Hospital District. (From CBS News Up to the Minute, "Parenting Points", May 23, 1996.)
• "Clinicial Chameleons: Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD) Symptoms in Schizophrenia" - Paul C. Bermanzohn, M.D. in the NARSAD Research Newsletter.
• "Dealing With Dog Anxiety" - by Richard Schlesinger on CBS's 48 Hours.
• "Eating Disorders: The Obsessive-Compulsive Link" - by Sharon Discorfano in Perspectives: A Mental Health Magazine.
• "Experiencing Obsessive Compulsive Behavior" - by Mary Haase. An excellent look at various types of OCD and how they affect the sufferers.
• "Fairy Tales and Movies" - by Nicole Suggs, postulates Beauty and the Beast as a model for the movie, As Good As It Gets.
• "Force of Habit: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder" - by Colleen Rush.
• "Guidelines for Managing Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Issued" - by Ed Susman in the Medical Tribune announces the guidelines issued by the Expert Consensus Panel.
• "Howard Stern Interviewed: Miss America Speaks Out" - mentions his OCD.
• Hypochondriacs Need Treatment - is a brief description of a study that, noting the similarities between hypochondria and OCD, attempted to treat the former with Prozac. (Columbia University Record)
• "The "I" and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder" - Jessica Zaldivar. A neurobiology paper on OCD.
• "Illuminating the Doubting Disease" - Diane Sussman in the Palo Alto Weekly. The article describes OCD and the OCD clinic at Stanford University, California, USA.
• The Infinite Mind: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - summary of January 1999 interviews with various OCD movers and shakers, both doctors and patients.
• "Inner Storms and Rainbows: TS and OCD ... Disability and Ability" - John S. Hilkevich, Ph.D. Also see Don't Think About Monkeys On-Line Magazine and his other articles on TS and OCD.
• "Let Them Eat Dirt: Could Today's Squeaky Clean World Be Making Us Ill?" - Garry Hamilton in New Scientist.
• "Living With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" - Kristina Van Arsdel in Texas Medical Center News.
• "Madness" - Dr. Gerald N. Callahan in Emerging Infectious Diseases. "Crazy Ants" might be an apt subtitle for this article which explores society's cultural distinction between "physical" and "mental" diseases by using examples of animals (especially ants, but including humans) that, when afflicted with certain infections, exhibit aberrant mental behavior. The OCD-strep link is discussed in one paragraph. A very interesting and readable article in a scholarly journal, with moving stories from the author's own family.
• "Magnificent Obsession" - Pamela J. Taylor. A sermon that begins with an OCD story.
• "Marker Identified for Children at Risk for OCD After Strep" - about PANDAS, in Psychiatric News.
• "Mensans and Their Obsessions" - Mark Hutchenreuther. A humorous, good-natured look at OCD symptoms. What is an RG?
• "Mental Illness Needs Understanding" - Krissi Duncan. A letter to the editor - "There are people in the world suffering daily and people can't see it."
• "At the Office: Meticulous Behavior Could Be Sign of Illness" - Cathleen Ferraro in The Sacramento Bee.
• "Mind Transcending Matter" - Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz steps back into the future for World Magazine. (Panda's Thumb response)
• "Ministering to Students with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" - Cherry Pedrick, R.N., originally published in Teachers in Focus.
• "Mr. Clean: A TV Host Confronts His Lifelong Compulsion" - Marc Summers - the Marc Summers - in People.
• "Neurobiological Disorders in Children and Adolescents" - has a section on OCD.
• "A New Germ Theory" - Judith Hooper in The Atlantic Monthly. The section, "Can You 'Catch' Schizophrenia?", describes the NIH research into the strep-OCD connection (PANDAS) before moving on to the subject of possible viral causes for schizophrenia.
• "OCD ... It's Easy as 1 ... 2 ... 3 ..." - Lisa Barroilhet at Psybersquare.
• "OCD Programmers Unite" - a plea by Nicholas Petreley for software developers to exhibit OCD-like conscientiousness in implementing good error handling in their programs. I second the notion!
• "Obsessed by a Bug?" - Miriam E. Tucker in The Washington Post. A report on the PANDAS research that suggests a link between strep throat and OCD.
• "Obsessive-Compulsive Calvin (OCD Case Study)" - a school paper about scrupulosity and OCD.
• "Obsessive Compulsive Disorder" - Gina Colata in Woman Today.
• "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - Dan J. Stein. An overview of OCD's physiological basis and its treatment.
• "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" - April Hendley. An English composition on OCD.
• "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" - Rachel Kaplan. A neurobiology paper on OCD.
• "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Linked to Piety" - James Randerson in New Scientist. Research by Claudio Sica of the University of Parma suggests that "committed Catholics are more likely to show symptoms of OCD".
• "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Monster Took My Dad Away" - a heart-rending, first-person account of living with and losing someone who suffered from OCD. (I believe this was originally posted to the OCD-L mailing list.) (NAMI/NYC)
• "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: New Hypotheses in Etiology and Breakthrough Treatment Approaches" - a neurochemistry paper by an unnamed student at the University of California at Berkeley.
• "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders" - transcript of an on-line discussion with Dr. Sanjaya Saxena, director of the UCLA OCD research program. (From CCI Journal.)
• "Obsessive Compulsive Sufferer Organizes Meeting to Aid Others" - Tracy L. Pipp in The Detroit News.
• "Over and Over and Over ..." - Phyllida Brown in New Scientist. Also see a subsequent letter to the editor.
• "Pharmacological Treatments of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder" - by an unnamed author; interesting bibliography.
• "Pregnancy Suspected Trigger in Onset of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" - announces a 1997 conference, Recognizing and Treating and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Opportunities for OB/Gyns.
• "Psychosurgery Redux: The 1990s Version Uses Radiation and Brain Imaging" - Wray Herbert in US News & World Report, November 3, 1997.
• "Religious Obsessions, Thoughts Associated with Mental Disorders" - by Jamie Talan of Newsday in Northwest Arkansas Online, October 6, 1999. (Story is on the second page of the PDF file; see Google for a largely unreadable text version.)
• "Researchers' Find Disputes Theories on Brain Disease" - by Jamie Talan of Newsday in The Seattle Times, October 26, 1999.
• "Scrupulosity: Age-Old Problems, Holistic Responses" - by Paul Duckro and Jason Williams, is an excellent summary of the history, diagnosis, and treatment of scrupulosity, .
• "Searching for a Better Understanding of OCD" - Anne Brown in the NARSAD Research Newsletter.
• "Shame, Secrecy Hinder Diagnosis and Treatment of Childhood OCD" - from Doctor's Guide to the Internet.
• "Sisters of Seizure" - by Michael Alvear in Salon. A great article about Alvear's personal experience with generalized anxiety disorder and "a little OCD on the side". He says he had "OCD Lite": pure obsessions, as they're sometimes called, without the ritualistic (physical?) behavior. Or, as Alvear humorously puts it, "I had the wattage, but not the plumage"!
• "Therapy by Phone Aims to Help Obsessive-Compulsive Patients" - JoAnn Jacobsen-Wells in The Salt Lake Tribune.
• "Tics" - Oliver Sacks in The New York Review of Books, January 29, 1987. Ostensibly about Tourette Syndrome and no mention of OCD, but many of the symptoms he describes cross over into OCD.
• "Tormented by Thoughts: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Causes Recurring Thoughts" - television report. (ABC News 20/20, December 2, 1999)
• "Treatment of OCD and Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorder" - Dr. Gerald D. Klee summarizes a lecture given by Dr. John M. Griest in 1998 to the Maryland Psychiatric Society.
• "Les Troubles Obsessionnels-Compulsifs" - a brief overview, in French, of OCD by Dr. François Ferrero.
• Understanding Anxiety Disorders - provides a detailed look at OCD, with sections on History, Epidemiology, Etiology, Diagnosis and Clinical Features, Course and Prognosis, and Treatment. (The National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association)
• "What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?"
• "When Your Child Has Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - Amy Wilensky.

Books

• Amazon.com's List of OCD Books
• Associates of Amazon.com:
  • Anxiety Disorders Bookshop: Obsessive Compulsive Behavior
  • PsyCom.Net Book Service: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
  • RecoveryBooks.com: Compulsive Behavior

• Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation Book & Movie Reviews
• Planet OCD - has a lengthy list of OCD books and their covers.

I am not an associate of Amazon.com or any other bookseller; the links below are to reviews and announcements. There are, however, many more books on OCD; visit one or more of the booksellers above for more complete listings.

• Blink, Blink, Clop. Clop: Why Do We Do Things We Can't Stop? - by E. Katia Mortiz, Ph.D. and Jennifer Jablonsky. A storybook aimed at helping young children to understand and manage OCD. (The publisher, Childswork/Childplay, has books and games for other disorders as well.)
• The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing - Judith Rapoport's classic book. (Book review)
• Confronting the Bully of OCD: Winning Back Our Freedom One Day at a Time - by Linda Maran. (Publisher's site)
• A Cursing Brain? The History of Tourette Syndrome - by Howard Kushner. (Book review by Jonathan Lethem)
• Demons of the Mind: A Memoir of an Obsessive-Compulsive - Christine A. Marriott's autobiography. This is a free E-book - thank you from all your readers! - and is available in various formats.
• Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood - Jennifer Traig's account of growing up with OCD, especially scrupulosity. From the on-line excerpt: "Some people won't even touch the door with a napkin; they'll just wait until somebody comes to open the door for them. But they're crazy!"
• Don't Think About Monkeys: Extraordinary Stories by People with Tourette Syndrome - by Adam Ward Seligman and John S. Hilkevich. Also see their Don't Think About Monkeys On-Line Magazine.
• Esquire Presents: What It Feels Like - edited by A. J. Jacobs. Culled from Esquire magazine's "What It Feels Like" series, a collection of "first-person tales about the heights and depths of human experience". Two stories especially of interest are "What It Feels Like to Have an Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" and "What It Feels Like to Have Tourette's Syndrome". (Interview with editor)
• Everything In Its Place - by entertainer and former national OCF spokesman Marc Summers. (OCF review)
• From Thoughts to Obsessions: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in Children and Adolescents - by Per Hove Thomsen.
• Ghosty Men: The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders - by Franz Lidz. The story of the Collyer brothers is interleaved with the story of Lidz's Uncle Arthur, whose hoarding habits also appear in Lidz's memoir, Unstrung Heroes.
• Guía Práctica Del TOC: Pistas Para Su Liberación - by Cherry Pedrick, R.N. and Bruce M. Hyman, Ph.D. (OCF review of the English edition, The OCD Workbook.)
• The Habit Change Workbook: How to Break Bad Habits and Form New Ones - by James Claiborn, Ph.D. and Cherry Pedrick, R.N. (OCF review)
• The Hair Pulling Problem: A Complete Guide to Trichotillomania - by Fred Penzel, Ph.D., author of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders and numerous articles.
• A Layman's Guide to Managing Fear: Using Psychology, Christianity and Non-Resistant Methods - by Stanley Popovich. (Publisher's site)
• Madness on the Couch: Blaming the Victim in the Heyday of Psychoanalysis - is a book by Edward Dolnick which focuses on the historical misapplication of Freud's theories to the understanding and treatment of schizophrenia, autism, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. (Book review; my book review)
• Naked - by David Sedaris. One chapter, "The Plague of Tics", describes his childhood struggles with OCD. You can hear him read a semi-humorous, semi-serious excerpt from the chapter here (MP3 and RealAudio formats). (Book review)
• ... nine, ten, do it again. A book for those with OCD and their families. - by Kathryn I'Anson. The web page has excerpts from the book and a table of contents.
• Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide - by Lorrin Koran, M.D., professor of psychiatry at Stanford University and director of the Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders Clinic.
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Help for Children and Adolescents - by Mitzi Waltz. (The publisher's page includes a table of contents, reviews, and the preface from the book.) (OCF review)
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: A Guide to Getting Well and Staying Well - by Fred Penzel, Ph.D., author of The Hair Pulling Problem and numerous articles. (OCF review)
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Theory, Research and Treatment - edited by Ross G. Menzies and Padmal de Silva. Chapter 1 is available on-line as a PDF file: "The Classification and Diagnosis of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder", by Annette Krochmalik and Ross G. Menzies; it provides both an interesting history of OCD and a discussion of contemporary issues regarding the diagnosis and classification of OCD.
• The Obsessive-Compulsive Trap: Real Help for a Real Struggle - by Mark Crawford, Ph.D. (Excerpt in PDF)
• The OCD Daily Meditation Book - by Dr. Christian R. Komor and James Callner, M.A. The web page has excerpts from the book and a table of contents.
• OCD Dissected - by Kirk Stacey and Susan Goater. A "workbook/manual for people with OCD by a sufferer of OCD." (Forward and ordering contact)
• OCD: A Survival Guide to a Life Among Secrets - is the autobiography of Steven Diamond, "a professional Las Vegas magician who suffered with chronic OCD". (Author's book page) (My book review)
• The OCD Workbook: Your Guide to Breaking Free from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - by Bruce Hyman, Ph.D. and Cherry Pedrick, R.N. (OCF review)
• Overcoming Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques - by Dr. David Veale and Robert Willson. (Publisher's page)
• Overcoming OCD and Schizophrenia With God in My Life - by Chip Correll. (Review)
• Passing for Normal: A Memoir of Compulsion - is Amy S. Wilensky's story of fighting both OCD and Tourette Syndrome. (My book review)
• Psychological Self-Help - by Clayton E. Tucker-Ladd, Ph.D. is a comprehensive on-line book about what the title suggests. Chapter 5 includes a section on OCD.
• A Secret Madness: A True Account of Obsessionalism - by Elaine Bass. "This is the story of my marriage in the fifties and how the secrets of my husband's illness were gradually uncovered."
• The Secret Problem - is a cartoon book about OCD for children, written and illustrated by Drs. Chris Wever and Neil Phillips, two psychiatrists in Australia. They have also written similar books about panic disorder and ADD; see Shrink-Rap Press.
• The Sky is Falling: Understanding and Coping with Phobias, Panic, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders - by Raeann Dumont. (Book announcement)
• So Many Rituals, So Little Time: Inspiration and Encouragement for Your Journey with OCD by Karen A. McCracken. "[A] moving, detailed, sometimes tearful and often humorous look at [OCD]" and a guide to overcoming OCD using your Christian faith. The book can be ordered from its publisher, Pleasant Word.
• Stop This Hurricane in My Brain: An OCD Survival Guide by Dina Sieroslawski and soon to be published by Llumina Press. The book "showcases numerous personal OCD journeys" and "demonstrates that there is life with OCD and it is possible to live happy and productive lives."
• Teaching the Tiger: A Handbook for Individuals Involved in the Education of Students with ADD, TS, or OCD - by Marilyn P. Dornbush and Sheryl K. Pruitt. The publisher, Hope Press, has other books on Tourette Syndrome and ADHD.
• Theoretical Approaches to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - by Ian Jakes. (Book announcement)
• A Thousand Frightening Fantasies: Understanding and Healing Scrupulosity and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - by William E. Van Ornum, Ph.D.
• The Tourette Syndrome Phenomenon - by Mark E. Kozlowski. A book in the making, it's currently an extensive website on TS by someone who has TS and OCD, among other disorders.
• Tourette's Syndrome -- Tics, Obsessions, Compulsions: Developmental Psychopathology and Clinical Care - edited by James F. Leckman and Donald J. Cohen. Reviewed by Barbara J. Coffey in The New England Journal of Medicine, September 30, 1999; 341:1087-1088.
• Unstrung Heroes - Franz Lidz's childhood memoir includes his "crazy" uncles, one of whom, Arthur, is a hoarder. Also see Unstrung Heroes, the movie made from the book.
• Up and Down the Worry Hill - by Dr. Aureen Wagner. (Publisher's site)
• Washing My Life Away: Surviving Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - by Ruth Deane. (Publisher's site)
• Why Me? - by Mark Snape. The author suffers from OCD; I haven't read the book, so I'm not sure if the book delves into his OCD. (Publisher's blurb)
• Worried No More - by Dr. Aureen Wagner. (Publisher's site)

Fiction

Children and Young Adults

• Kissing Doorknobs - by Terry Spencer Hesser. A young adult novel told from the point of view of a 14-year-old who has developed OCD. (Review)
• A Thought Is Just a Thought - by Leslie Talley, with a foreword by Dr. Michael Jenike. (Publisher's site)
• "Wanda's Secrets: A Story About a Girl with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" - by Cherry Pedrick, R.N.

Adults

• "Episode on South Street" - a short story involving OCD by Ed Newman.
• "Indian Rubber Balls" - by Robert Starr. This is a short story about a man who hears a voice in his head, but there is also a shade of OCD in his checking the lock on his front door until his hand is "red and sore". The man's description of the voice could apply as well to obsessions: "[H]e imagined it curling up and ricocheting around inside his head like an Indian Rubber Ball, giggling and pounding the inside of his skull until he did something to appease it."
• Motherless Brooklyn - by Jonathan Lethem. A mystery novel featuring a detective with Tourette Syndrome. You can hear an excerpt from the book here (MP3 and RealAudio formats). (Book review)
• The Pleasure of My Company - by Steve Martin. A lightly humorous novella about Daniel Pecan Cambridge, "a savant whose closely proscribed world is bounded on every side by neuroses and obsessions". (Author's web site)
• Short of a Picnic - a collection of short stories by Eric Shapiro (screenwriter, director, and author), whose "own battle with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder compelled him to write Short of a Picnic - to explore the thoughts and behaviors of those suffering from mental disorders without prejudgment or moralizing".

Scholarly Papers

• Mental Health Net: OCD Research - provides simplified access to the PubMed MEDLINE bibliographic database maintained by the National Library of Medicine. Searching on "All" produced a list of 2,733 OCD-related citations, many with abstracts; the search can be narrowed further by selecting a particular area of interest on which to search.

• Collections
  • Current CME Reviews: Anxiety Disorders - has links to a number of on-line, scholarly, but readable papers on OCD.
  • The Inositol Reports - is a collection of three papers that describe studies of Inositol in the treatment of depression, panic disorder, and OCD.
  • Internet Mental Health: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - has links to lengthy bibliographies (with summaries) on the diagnosis of OCD, the treatment of OCD, and the cause of OCD.
  • Medscape Clinical Abstracts - Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - has abstracts for a number of OCD studies (as of 1997).
  • OCD Clinical Research Program's Publications - at Wayne State University.

• "Alteration of the Platelet Serotonin Transporter in Romantic Love" - (abstract only) notes the biochemical similarities between OCD and romantic love. This paper, by Marazziti, Akiskal, Rossi, and Cassano, was awarded the 2000 Ig® Nobel Prize in Chemistry. (Psychological Medicine, 1999 May; 29(3):741-5)
• "Anticipatory Adjustments in Grip Force in Individuals with Tourette's Syndrome" - summarizes a study by Flanagan, Jakobson, and Munhall of movement tics as "coordinated actions that are produced at inappropriate times". (Published article in PDF format)
• "A Case of Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated With Streptococcal Infections" - Perlmutter, Garvey, Castellanos, Mittleman, Giedd, Rapoport, and Swedo. (American Journal of Psychiatry, November 1998; 155:1592-1598)
• "Children With Obsessive Compulsive Disorder" - "Should have access to specific psychopharmacological and behavioural treatments". An editorial by Isobel Heyman. (British Medical Journal, 1997; 315:444)
• "Clinical Factors Affecting Response and Adverse Reactions in Patients Treated with Fluoxetine" - Larry Brash.
• "Delayed Treatment in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Discussion and Survey Analysis" - James J. Ellis. Analyzes "the time lag between the onset of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and the first time the patient seeks treatment"; some of the data was collected from the OCD-L mailing list.
• "The Development of the Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder School Impact Scale: An Investigation Using the Accuracy-Reliability Paradigm for Scale Validation" - Thomas Kratochwill. Project description.
• "The Disease of Ritual: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder as an Outgrowth of Normal Behavior" - Diana Smay, The Emory Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life (MARIAL). The working paper examines "the implications of a common ground between normal ritual as a basic and necessary component of human cultural behavior, and the behaviors of OCD as pathology". (PDF format)
• "The Efficacy of Behavioral Therapy with Obsessive-Compulsives" - Edna B. Foa, Ph.D. (The Clinical Psychologist, 1996; 49(2):19-22)
• "An Evolutionary Hypothesis For Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Psychological Immune System?" - Riadh T. Abed and Karel W. de Pauw.
• "A 40-Year Follow-up of Patients With Obsessive-compulsive Disorder" - Gunnar and Ingmar Skoog. (AMA's Archives of General Psychiatry, February 1999)
• "Fluvoxamine Versus Clomipramine in the Treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Parallel Group Comparison" - Christopher Freeman et al. Luvox vs. Anafranil, and the winner is - both! (The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 1994; 55:301-305)
• "Gene Mutation in Rare Familial Form of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)" - announces the publication of an article, "Serotonin Transporter Missense Mutation Associated with a Complex Neuropsychiatric Phenotype", in Molecular Psychiatry, 2003; 8(11):933-936.
• "Genotype determining low catechol-O-methyltransferase activity as a risk factor for obsessive-compulsive disorder" (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA)
• "Identifying Predictors of Drug Response in Patients With OCD" - Stefano Erzegovesi. (Psychiatric Times, May 2002)
• "Managing Aggressive Behavior in Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder" - Eric Hollander. (The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 1999)
• "OCD and the Brain" - Andrew B. Hollander.
• "Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Pharmacotherapy" - Vicki Ellingrod, Pharm.D., BCPP. (Clinical Psychopharmacology Seminar, University of Iowa, 1996)
• "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" - Sarah C. Aronson. A doctor's overview of OCD.
• "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - A Complication of Benzodiazepine Withdrawal" - abstract only, but the abstract includes the case report of a woman who developed OCD after stopping the indicated medicine. (The paper dates from the late 1980's.)
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Annual Incidence: Kaplan-Meier Estimation - a graph of incidence versus age of onset. (Guojun Cai)
• PET Scans of OCD Patients - before and after drug therapy, and before and after behavior therapy.
• "Phenomenology of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Factor Analytic Approach" - B. G. Girishchandra and Suman Khanna. (Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 2001, 43(4))
• "Platelet Serotonin Transporter in Children and Adolescents with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder or Tourette's Syndrome" - abstract only. (J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry)
• "Pregnancy Outcome Following Maternal Use of the New Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors" - abstract only. (Journal of the American Medical Association, February 25, 1998)
• "A Preliminary Study of Partial Hospital Management of Severe Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" - abstract only. (Psychiatric Services)
• "Structural Abnormalities of Frontal Neocortex in Obsessive-compulsive Disorder" - Igor D. Grachev et al update an article by Jenike et al. (Archives of General Psychiatry, February 1998; 55(2):181-182)
• "A Time-Limited Behavioral Group for Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" - Barbara L. Van Noppen et al. (The Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research, October 1998)
• "Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Applications in Neuropsychiatry" - Mark George et al review current research into and applications of TMS. (Archives of General Psychiatry, 1999; 56:300-311)
• "Vagus Nerve Stimulation: A New Tool for Brain Research and Therapy" - Mark George et al review current research into and applications of VNS. (Biological Psychiatry, February 2000)

• Stereotypical Behaviors Database - is an extensive bibliography of academic papers on OCD (and other behavior disorders) in animals and humans. (Compiled by Ione Smith?)