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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) Obsessions are where thoughts and images appear and cannot be controlled in a person. Shafran 1999 believes it is a way of reducing or preventing the anxiety from other sources, maybe future events. They are mainly thoughts or images that include sexual, blasphemous or aggressive elements. Some examples of OCD put forward by Sanavio 1988, may be an impaired control over mental process, which can take the form of repetitive thoughts over some ones death. Concerns of losing control over motor behaviours of killing someone, fear of contamination by germs, as well as checking behaviours, like locked doors are also popular characteristics. Compulsions occur where an action is repeated over and over again in relation to the obsession. Compulsions may be a way of easing the obsessive thoughts that is put forward by the behaviourists, e.g. Shafran 1999 explained how people that have a fear of germ contamination...

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