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INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS
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APRIL 2012
VOL 3, NO 12
notably associated with the disorder are consistently, strict, authoritarian, and over controlling
styles. In their childhood, these children were likely taught to be overly responsible for their
behaviors, and trained to feel shameful and worthless if not compliant. Sperry and Carlson
(1996) hypothesized that ―the parental injunction to which they were most likely exposed was
‗You must do and be better to be worthwhile‘‖ (Laksman, 2007).
Cognition approaches consider the role <strong>of</strong> irrational core beliefs or maladaptive schemas
as important factor in the forming <strong>of</strong> obsessive compulsive personality disorder (Millon,
Grossman, Millon, Meagher and Ramnath, 2004). <strong>The</strong> obsessive compulsive personality
disorder (OCPD) correlate to dysfunctional cognition schemas towards responsibility and its
thoughts deal with schemas such as blame, punishment, guilt and shame. <strong>The</strong>se schemas are
predefined in their memories that <strong>of</strong>ten impose their structures to the new information
(Rheaume, Ladouceur, Freestone and Lerarte, 1995). <strong>The</strong>y also have low desire to healthy
behavioral responses so that they experience impulsive behaviors and high worry( Arntz,
Weertman, Salt, 2001).
<strong>The</strong>re are different approaches concerning how to cure people suffering from personality
disorders including obsessive compulsive personality disorder (OCPD). To name just a few
we can mention: Psychoanalyses based on transference psychotherapy (Kernberg and
Klarkin, 1999), behavioral psychotherapies such as Dialectical Behavior therapy (Linehan,
1993) and also treatments based on cognitive approaches such as cognitive therapy (Beck and
Freeman, 1990; Freeman and Fusco, 2004), rational-emotional therapy (Ellis,2001),
contrastive-cognitive therapy (Sharf,2002), cognition Revolutional therapy (Lyoti,2002;
Oldham, Gabbard and Gain, 2001; Arntz, Klokman and Siesweda, 2005) and also medicine
therapy (Joyice, 2003).
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