Psychotherapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David J Puder

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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On this podcast episode, we interview Dr. Fred Penzel who received both his MA and PhD in School and Clinical Psychology from Hofstra University in 1985. In 1989, he founded Western Suffolk Psychological Services in Huntington, New York, where he is the executive director and a practicing psychologist. Since 1982, he has been involved in the treatment of numerous disorders including OCD, body dysmorphic disorder, body-focused repetitive behaviors such as hair-pulling disorder (Trichotillomania) and excoriation disorder (compulsive skin-picking), panic and agoraphobia, phobias, and post-traumatic stress disorder. He specializes in the treatment of these disorders within his practice. He is a founding and active member of both the International Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Foundation (IOCDF) and the TLC Foundation for BFRB’s Science Advisory Boards. He is also a member of advisory board of the United Kingdom’s Anxiety UK organization. In addition, he is an adjunct faculty member and community supervisor for the doctoral psychology program at Long Island University (C.W. Post campus). He is the author of Obsessive Compulsive Disorders: A Complete Guide to Getting Well and Staying Well (2017) and The Hair Pulling Problem: A Complete Guide to Trichotillomania (2003). He has no conflicts of interest to report.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Psychiatry and Psychothermic Podcast.
0:12.2	I'm here to talk about getting rid of burnout, increasing job satisfaction, and feeling
0:16.6	like an expert in what you do.
0:18.6	One thing that created a lot of burnout and angst for me was trying to get continued medical
0:22.0	education right at the last minute.
0:24.2	So why not join the CME membership and do CME while listening to this podcast?
0:28.6	Go to Psychiatrypodcast.com, sign up, sign in, take the test, and the certification
0:32.5	is emailed to you in seconds.
0:34.6	All right, today we are joined with Dr. Fred Penzel.
0:39.9	He wrote a book called Obsessive Compulsive Disorders, A Complete Guide to Getting Well
0:45.8	and Staying Well.
0:47.4	I reached out to him after we found we were doing our OCD episode and we used his book pretty
0:52.9	extensively because it was a great book.
0:55.2	So I reached out to him and he was more than happy to come out here and teach us some
0:59.4	stuff.
1:00.4	He has been treating OCD since he was, let's see, an intern in 1982.
1:07.0	He was a founding member of the International Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Foundation
1:13.0	and the TLC foundations for BFRB's Science Advisory Board.
1:20.2	He's still active in both foundations.
1:23.4	He has a book also on Trick Tellomania and a pretty extensive CV, so it's really great
1:32.1	to have you.
1:33.1	Give some wisdom to our audience here.
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