Dr Nicola Petrocchi: Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) for OCD (#296)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In episode 296 I interviewed Dr Nicola Petrocchi. Nicola is a licensed CBT psychotherapist based in Rome, Adjunct Professor of Psychology at John Cabot University (Rome) and student counsellor.
We discuss his therapy story, what is compassion-focused therapy (CFT), the evolutionary view of the mind, how CFT fits in with other therapies, his study: what it is, what it found. We talk about viewing OCD from a compassionate lens, the science behind compassion, we discuss different types of guilt, different exercises in CFT, working with the inner critical voice, we discuss some of the resistances to doing CFT, and much more. Hope it helps.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The O. C.D. Stories podcast hosted by me, Stuart Ralph. |
| 0:05.3 | The O. C. D. Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding |
| 0:10.1 | around obsessive compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, |
| 0:15.2 | psychologists and people who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories. |
| 0:22.3 | And welcome to episode |
| 0:23.4 | to episode 296 and in this episode I chat with |
| 0:27.1 | Dr Nicola Patroki about compassion focused therapy or CFT specifically for ICD. So |
| 0:35.5 | Nikola did a study where recently people with OCD it was a group study |
| 0:42.3 | and they were specifically looking at |
| 0:45.7 | treatment resistant clients so people who have done at least six months of |
| 0:50.2 | CBT and not seen the improvements they wanted and we discuss why he chose those people and we talk about his therapy journey |
| 0:59.5 | we discuss what is compassion focused therapy the evolutionary view of the mind how cFT fits in with other |
| 1:06.8 | therapies his study including what is it what he found then we discuss viewing OCD from a compassionate lens, the science |
| 1:15.2 | behind compassion, we discuss different types of guilt, different exercises in CFT, working with |
| 1:22.4 | the inner critical voice, we discuss some of the resistances to doing |
| 1:27.6 | CFT and much more. |
| 1:30.1 | And thanks always to NOCD for supporting the show. I deeply appreciate it. |
| 1:33.7 | If you want to find out more about an ICD and their therapy services, |
| 1:37.8 | head to go dot treat my ICD.com forward slash the ICD stories or click the link in the episode |
| 1:44.2 | description. So thank you to Nicola for his time and to you guys for listening as |
| 1:48.8 | always I deeply appreciate it. Now without further ado here is Nicola. |
| 1:53.4 | Welcome to the show Nicola. |
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