Dr Steven Phillipson - Magical thinking in OCD (Ep183)

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🗓️ 21 July 2019

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Summary

In episode 183 of The OCD Stories podcast I interviewed Dr Steven Phillipson. Steven is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for OCD. In this episode Steven talks about magical thinking and thought-action fusion. Hope it helps.

Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/podcast/dr-steven-phillipson-magical-thinking-in-ocd

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0:00.0	Hey guys and welcome to episode 183 of Go C.D. stories.
0:13.0	podcast.
0:14.0	In this episode I got on Dr. Stephen Phillipson to talk about
0:18.0	magical thinking and thought action fusion.
0:21.0	So in this, Stephen goes back to the start and explains what is
0:25.1	OCD, kind of what's going on in the brain. And then he starts to explain what is
0:30.1	magical thinking, how magical thinking exists generally in society, ERP are exposures for
0:36.1	magical thinking, we go into a full action fusion, and then Stephen gets some words of hope and
0:41.3	much, much more.
0:42.3	Hopefully you'll find this useful if you deal
0:45.4	with magical thinking. Thanks to Steve and you guys for listening and without further
0:50.4	ado here he is. Welcome back to the show Steve.
0:54.0	It's good to see you again.
0:55.6	Yeah.
0:56.6	You're looking well, Stu.
0:57.8	Thank you.
0:59.7	So what is magical thinking? I've been giving a lot of thought this past week or so to the
1:08.8	topic of magical thinking and before I actually speak about the specifics of magical thinking as a subset of OCD,
1:16.8	I want to just review some of the broader concepts of OCD so that talking about magical thinking within that, I think, has more context
1:26.2	and more relevance. And the first thing I want to say is, you know, magical thinking is just one of the endless multitude of
1:37.3	subsets of O. C. D. And the more that the internet is propagating information about O. C. D. I'm always
1:47.2	amused at the addition of the new letters before the O. C. D. AsOCD for gay spiking, ROCD for relationship
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