Dr Steven Phillipson: Character Indictment OCD (#312)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In episode 312 I chat with Dr Steven Phillipson. Steven is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for OCD. Steven is the Clinical Director at the Center for Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy in New York.
We discuss what is character indictment, the varied emotions behind OCD, confessing as a common compulsion of this theme, a different way to look at the concept of being a good or bad person, feeling like you don't deserve nice things, what the brains trying to do with OCD, how we demonstrate to the brain we are safe, Steve gives examples of character indictment OCD, 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 312 of the podcast. And in this one I got back on |
| 0:26.8 | Dr Stephen Philipson. So if you've been listening to the podcast for a while you would have |
| 0:31.3 | heard him on the show before. We've covered many topics and many sort of niche topics. |
| 0:37.7 | So this is no different. This one is Character Indictment OCD, is Dr Philipson terms it so in this one we go into |
| 0:45.8 | what is character indictment first of all the definition of it the varied emotions |
| 0:50.9 | behind OCD confessing as a common compulsion of this theme, a different |
| 0:55.6 | way to look at the concept or philosophy or idea of being a good or bad person or good or |
| 1:02.3 | bad people, |
| 1:03.0 | feeling like you don't deserve nice things, |
| 1:06.0 | what the brain is trying to achieve with OCD, |
| 1:09.0 | how we demonstrate to the brain that we are safe, |
| 1:12.0 | giving examples of character indictment, |
| 1:14.2 | O. C. D. and much more. So it may seem like a niche topic, but I think it may |
| 1:21.2 | resonate with a lot of you and also Philipson always covers a lot of general |
| 1:27.6 | views and ideas of O. C. D. treatment so I think there's something in here for everyone. |
| 1:32.1 | And thanks as always to no |
| 1:33.4 | ced for supporting the work that I do no ced offers affordable effective convenient |
| 1:39.0 | therapy available in the US and outside the US if you wanted to find out more about their therapy services |
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