You're listening to The O. C.D do this for interviewing inspired therapists,

psychologists and people who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories.

And welcome to episode 307 of the podcast and in this one I chat with

Eva Stepney. Eva is a research student studying for her PhD at the

University of Sheffield.

Her thesis is titled Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and the Foundation of Evidence-Based

Practice in British Psychology, 1948 to 1990.

So I got either on to particularly talk about a article

that she published recently called Guilty Obsessions.

But first we talk about her PhD research.

Then we go into the article, Guilty Obsessions,

in which we talk about the history of OCD,

the history of psychoanalysis and the development of other psychoph therapies such as E.P.

The importance of Sigmund Freud to the early development of conceptualization of O. C.D.

What separates O. C.D. From Fobias, how other emotions like guilt, doubt and this but how mainstream psychiatry focused only on fear until in more recent years

when the research is showing that other emotions play a role too.

We discuss the idea of trauma and potential links to OCD,

the history of ER.R.P. and the conference OCD in society,

which will be happening in 2022 in London.

So there's a few things I want to say about this episode.

One is because Eva talks about and I talk

about Sigmund Freud. Obviously he was focused a lot on libedinal drives, i.e. things like sex come into it, so just a kind of warning for anyone,

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