The Upside of OCD

"This book is a love letter to OCD sufferers. Offering added depth to the exploration of the OCD experience, The Upside of OCD makes a great companion to evidence-based treatments like ACT and ERP. --Jill Stoddard, PhD, director of The Center for Stress and Anxiety Management and author of Be Mighty: A Woman's Guide to Liberation from Anxiety, Worry, and Stress Using Mindfulness and Acceptance If OCD impacts your life in some way, then this book is a must-read. Bringing together evidence-based research with impactful and often personal stories, Alc�e invites us to fundamentally rethink the nature and approaches to OCD. Everyone with OCD should have a wise, insightful champion like Alc�e. --Wendy K. Smith, Dana J. Johnson Professor of Management, University of Delaware It's about time somebody brought the human being back into OCD. In this readable and entertaining book, Michael Alc�e has put the suffering person at the center of the complex phenomenon we have simplistically reified as ""OCD."" His chatty, personal writing style has a serious, scholarly intent. Pitched directly to sufferers, the book reframes, with creativity and verve, the nature, function, and meaning of their symptoms. I recommend it to anyone who has struggled with ruminative thoughts and mandatory actions and also to anyone interested in a refreshingly new exploration of obsessive and compulsive psychology. --Nancy McWilliams, PhD, ABPP, Emerita Visiting Professor, Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology"