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Treatment of Childhood Obsessive—Compulsive Disorder

A Review in the Light of Recent Findings

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Obsessive—compulsive disorder (OCD) can develop early in life. The classical psychiatric and psychoanalytic literature contains detailed clinical descriptions of the disorder in young children. Janet reported a case of obsessional neurosis in a 5-year-old boy (Janet, 1903), and Freud’s famous patient, the Rat Man, had his first symptoms around age 6 (Freud, 1909).

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Flament, M.F., Vera, L. (1990). Treatment of Childhood Obsessive—Compulsive Disorder. In: Treatment Strategies in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2599-2_4

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