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6/14/13<br />

THOUGHT OBJECT FUSION <br />

MAGICAL THINKING AND OCD <br />

– Thoughts, events, or feelings can be transferred <br />

onto objects <br />

• Death, bad luck, a person’s personality traits are <br />

transferred onto objects <br />

• Believing that personality characteriscs act like germs <br />

which linger on objects or places <br />

• Objects retain the negave qualies of significant <br />

events <br />

• The more severe the OCD, the more likelihood <br />

to have magical thinking <br />

• The more magical thinking person <br />

experiences, the less tolerant of obsessive <br />

thoughts (more distress associated with <br />

obsessive thoughts) <br />

TREATMENT CONSIDERATIONS <br />

STANDARD CBT TREATMENT TECHNIQUES <br />

• Proper assessment <br />

– Assess level of OVI <br />

– Thorough psychosocial to idenfy possible trauma <br />

<strong>and</strong> betrayal <br />

• Assess for expression of other emoons associated <br />

with obsessive belief (anger, sadness, disgust) <br />

• Role of emoon dysregulaon <strong>and</strong> balancing <br />

validaon with exposure response prevenon in <br />

cases with dysregulaon <br />

• Behavioral experiments to challenge beliefs <br />

• Place oneself on a connuum in relaon to other <br />

people who act on their thoughts <br />

– Best ever person -­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐worst ever person <br />

• Cognive therapy to address core beliefs <br />

• In vivo or imaginal exposure to person, place, or <br />

object that has taken on aversive emoonal quality <br />

• Response prevenon <br />

SUNDAY<br />

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