Dr Ronald Nicholson: Using humour in OCD therapy (#499)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In episode 499 I chat with Dr Ronald Nicholson. Ron is a clinical psychologist currently practicing as a post-doctoral fellow at Dr. Steven Phillipson's Center of Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy.
We discuss humour in OCD therapy, why humour can help, finding the right balance between humour and seriousness, humour as a way of showing irrelevance, Dr Phillipson asks a few questions including what is the funniest thing that has happened in therapy. We discuss the science of laughter, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and much more. Hope it helps.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The OCD Stories podcast, hosted by me, Stuart Ralph. |
| 0:05.5 | The OCD Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding around obsessive, |
| 0:11.1 | compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, psychologists, and people |
| 0:16.8 | who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD Stories. And welcome to episode 499. That's |
| 0:25.0 | 499 of the OCD Stories podcast. So one more episode to 500. And in this one I got on Dr. Ronald |
| 0:33.2 | Nicholson. I'll be calling him Ron in this episode. So Ron is a clinical psychologist |
| 0:38.0 | currently practicing as a postdoctoral fellow at Dr. Stephen Phillipson's center of cognitive |
| 0:44.2 | behavioral psychotherapy. And in this episode, we discuss humor in OCD therapy, why humor can |
| 0:50.5 | help, finding the right balance between humor and seriousness, humor as a way of showing |
| 0:56.0 | irrelevance. Dr. Philipson asks a few questions, including what is the funniest thing that has |
| 1:01.4 | happened in therapy, or at least I ask them on behalf of Dr. Philipson. We discuss the science of |
| 1:07.0 | laughter, acceptance of commitment therapy, and much more. And thanks to our podcast partners |
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| 1:30.3 | with OCD. |
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| 1:45.9 | So thank you so much to Ron for his time and talking about this fun and important topic. Of course, thank you to you guys |
| 1:51.9 | for listening as always. One more episode to go, as I said earlier. I am grateful for you, |
| 1:57.0 | whether this is your first episode or your 499th. Thank you so much. Without |
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