Hey guys and welcome to episode 153 of the

city stories dotcom podcast.

Now in this episode I got on John Hirschfeld for the fourth time I believe.

I think he was like episode 2 or 4 or something in the early days.

So he was there from the beginning, so I thank him for that.

And I've had him on since then to discuss other things,

including his book, One A Family Member has OCD.

So if you'll listen to this. and you don't have OCD,

but a family member does, then their episode and then that book may help you.

But in this episode, I got my to talk about his new book called Overcoming Harm OCD, Mindfulness and

CBT tools for coping with unwanted violent thoughts.

And in this we talk about the new book.

We talk about things such as how to identify mental compulsions which is a question I get from

you guys and how to be mindful with harm obsessions tips for disclosing violent obsessions, tips for disclosing violent sessions. So if you want to tell

someone sort of some ways of how to go about that. Had a few listener questions

which were really good actually so yeah I think you'll like the answers to

those and then the usual stuff but as always John doesn't disappoint he gives loads of

information and I think you're going to enjoy this.

So without further ado, here is John Hirschfeld.

On the podcast today I have John Hirschfeld.

John is a psychotherapist who specializes in the treatment of

obsessive compulsive disorder. He is the author of four books and he is here today

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