perfectionism and - Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation

6/14/13
THE ROLE OF BETRAYAL
• “Betrayal is a sense of being harmed by the intenonal
acons, or omissions, of a person who was assumed to be a
trusted and loyal friend, relave, partner, colleague, or
companion” -­‐ Rachman
• TYPES OF BETRAYAL
– Harmful disclosures of confidenal informaon
– Disloyalty
– Infidelity
– Dishonesty
– Failures to help during significant mes of need
EMOTIONAL CONTAMINATION AND
INTERPERSONAL DYSFUNCTION
• Is there a connecon
• Possible co-­‐morbidity with Axis II perhaps
mediated by history of trauma
• Betrayal is form of trauma
• Betrayal leads to feelings of humiliaon, degradaon, and
worthlessness which lead to feeling dirty and “polluted”
• The “betrayer” can become focus of contaminaon
MAGICAL THINKING IN OCD
• Beliefs about relaonships between events that do not follow
laws of nature or causality
• Coincidental co-­‐occurrence of a thought and negave event
• Cultural influences
• Religious moral influences from authority figures (parents,
clergy, etc.)
• Magical thinking increases during mes of stress
• Need to control things that ma^er to us as human beings
– Found in cultures all over the world in which ritualisc
behaviors are performed to alter natural events
THOUGHT ACTION FUSION
• Moral TAF – unacceptable thoughts are
morally equivalent to immoral acons
• Likelihood TAF – certain thoughts cause
parcular events or increase likelihood of
events occurring
• Part of the construct of magical or
supersous thinking
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