What is behavior therapy for OCD?

Wayne K. Goodman, MD on behalf of The Mount Sinai Health System

Psychiatry

Behavior therapy for obsessive compulsive disorder focuses on the here and now. In this video, Wayne Goodman, MD, chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, discusses how this approach treats the symptoms of OCD.

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