Dr Steven Phillipson - Things that complicate the success of ERP (#247)
The OCD Stories
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🗓️ 11 October 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In episode 247 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.
In this episode I chat with Steve about why some people get more from Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy (ERP) quicker than others, what is ERP and why it works, what are some common reasons that complicate the success of ERP, he gives plenty of OCD theme examples, when the need to do therapy right can become a secondary obsession itself, the idea of irrelevance, how the therapeutic relationship can affect treatment outcomes, the importance of homework, the importance of doing response prevention when doing exposures, why it’s ok if you don’t get anxious when doing an exposure, mental compulsions, educating significant others, an ideal mindset for doing ERP, why starting too high up the ERP hierarchy may not be a good thing, why building on success in therapy is helpful, how desperation and control can interfere with therapy, and much much more. Hope it helps.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys and welcome to episode 247 of the OCD stories. |
| 0:08.0 | And welcome to episode 247 of the OCD stories |
| 0:11.0 | dot com podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Now in this episode I got back on Dr Stephen Philipson |
| 0:17.0 | and we talk about things that complicate the success of ARP. |
| 0:21.0 | So in it we break down what some of those things are. We talk about why some people get |
| 0:25.7 | more from exposure response prevention therapy quicker than others. What ERP is and why it works. What are some of the common reasons that complicate the success of the |
| 0:35.8 | R. He has plenty of different OCD theme examples to illustrate his points. |
| 0:40.1 | We talk about when the need to do therapy right can become a secondary obsession in itself. |
| 0:46.0 | We talk about this idea of irrelevance, how the therapeutic relationship can affect treatment outcomes, |
| 0:51.0 | the importance of homework, the importance of doing response prevention when |
| 0:54.4 | doing exposures, why it's okay if you don't get anxious when doing an exposure exercise, |
| 0:59.2 | talk about mental compulsions, educating significant others, an ideal mindset for doing ERP, why starting |
| 1:06.5 | too high up the ERP hierarchy may not be a good thing, why it's important to build on success |
| 1:11.7 | how desperation and control can interfere with |
| 1:14.0 | therapy so wide-reaching episode I hope this helps you if this is applicable to you at |
| 1:20.8 | this time and a quick shout out for our podcast partners, NOCD. |
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| 1:38.2 | Message your therapist and learn what helps other people in their OCD peer community. |
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