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The British Journal of Psychiatry (1969) 115: 1261-1268. doi: 10.1192/bjp.115.528.1261
© 1969 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
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Mood State and the Ritualistic Behaviour of Obsessional Patients

VALERIE J. WALKER B.A., Ph.D.1 and H. R. BEECH B.A., Dip.Psych., Ph.D.2

1 Lecturer in Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh, 10
2 Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, S.E.5

Current explanations of the ritualistic behaviour of obsessional patients tend to be based on over-simplified accounts of this behavour. Detailed investigation of the rituals of three individual patients yielded the following findings, which are at variance with some widely held views and theories: (i) hostility, depression and anxiety are all important components of the mood state associated with ritualistic behaviour; (ii) these three components of mood state vary together; (iii) long rituals are associated with bad mood state before the ritual; (iv) some rituals cause mood to deteriorate, and this deterioration is more marked the longer the ritual; (v) artificial curtailment of such rituals has a beneficial effect on mood.

Submitted on October 21, 1968




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