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Scrupulosity: Religious attitudes and clinical presentations
Author(s) -
Greenberg David,
Witztum Eliezer,
Pisante Jean
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
british journal of medical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.102
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 2044-8341
pISSN - 0007-1129
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8341.1987.tb02714.x
Subject(s) - judaism , similarity (geometry) , psychology , psychotherapist , psychiatry , social psychology , psychoanalysis , clinical psychology , philosophy , theology , artificial intelligence , computer science , image (mathematics)
The attitudes of Catholicism and Judaism to scrupulosity are presented and the similarity between their management programmes and present‐day behavioural psychotherapy is noted. Two famous cases are presented from 16th‐century Europe and a further four cases from our 20th‐century clinic in Jerusalem. Certain common features are noted, typical of obsessive‐compulsive disorders, while some features, typical of scrupulosity, are best understood by considering both their religious and psychological importance.