Volume 1

Understanding Your Obsessional Experience

The New Therapy of Reasoning and Imagination

Are you struggling with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and feeling trapped in a cycle of endless doubts and compulsions? While traditional treatments can be effective, they often leave individuals with lingering symptoms or the overwhelming task of confronting their fears head-on. This groundbreaking self-help guide introduces a transformative alternative: Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT).

In Resolving OCD: Understanding Your Obsessional Experience, the first volume of this two-part series, you’ll embark on a journey to explore how OCD distorts your thinking by blurring the line between imagination and reality. Developed by Dr. Frederick Aardema, this comprehensive guide serves as both a self-help manual and an indispensable resource for therapists, providing practical techniques to enhance therapy sessions. Drawing on decades of research and clinical success, it offers a fresh perspective on tackling OCD at its roots—without relying on fear-based confrontations.

In Resolving OCD: Understanding Your Obsessional Experience, you will explore:

• A comprehensive introduction to OCD and its treatment models: Gain insight into how OCD manifests in various forms and discover how I-CBT offers an innovative approach that directly targets its origins.
• Mapping the obsessional sequence: Identify your primary obsessional doubts and how they drive all of your symptoms through a detailed, step-by-step exploration of the outer wheel of OCD.
• Distinguishing everyday doubt from obsessional doubt: Understand how obsessional doubt is fundamentally different from regular uncertainty, and learn how to recognize these doubts.
• Uncovering the obsessional narrative that fuels your OCD: Explore how OCD constructs elaborate stories around your doubts, making them feel real and convincing.
• Creating alternative, non-obsessional narratives: Learn to craft new, balanced narratives that shift your perspective away from OCD’s distortions.
• Interactive exercises, handouts, and diagrams: Engage with practical tools designed to help you identify, track, and break the cycle of obsessional thinking.
• Downloadable resources: Access tools that are perfect for both personal use and enhancing therapeutic sessions with your clinician.

Start your journey toward overcoming OCD today with Volume One, and prepare for even more advanced strategies in Volume Two of the series.

Awareness lights the way, and clarity drives the journey forward.

Volume 2

Advanced Strategies for Obsessional Doubt

Break Free from OCD with a Revolutionary Approach

Having laid the groundwork in Resolving OCD: Understanding Your Obsessional Experience, it’s time to delve deeper into the heart of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Resolving OCD: Advanced Strategies for Overcoming Obsessional Doubt takes you beyond awareness and into action, equipping you with the tools to break free from the hold of OCD.

Developed by Dr. Frederick Aardema, this guide builds upon the insights from Volume One, offering advanced cognitive and behavioral strategies for real-world application. It goes deep into the core of OCD, helping you address the root cause of obsessional doubt. Whether you are seeking to overcome OCD or a mental health professional looking for effective therapeutic techniques, Volume Two provides you with the tools to move beyond OCD.

In Resolving OCD: Advanced Strategies for Overcoming Obsessional Doubt, you will explore:

• Advanced techniques for dismantling obsessional doubts: Address the confusion between imagination and reality that fuels OCD, helping you break free from distorted thinking.
• Mastering the OCD Trifecta: Learn how to identify and dismantle the three core components of OCD’s rigged game, designed to keep you trapped in obsessional thinking.
• The Five Doorways to Freedom: Discover key strategies for navigating OCD’s tricks and unlocking your mind from irrelevant fears and false perceptions.
• Recognizing and neutralizing the feared possible self: Uncover and disarm the imagined version of yourself that OCD tries to convince you are, removing its influence over your behavior.
• Breaking free from the “OCD bubble”: Learn to recognize the crossover point into OCD’s mental space, helping you avoid becoming ensnared in obsessional thoughts and compulsions.
• Reality-sensing exercises: Reconnect with the present moment and trust your senses, helping you move away from compulsions and overthinking.

Take your next step today with Resolving OCD: Advanced Strategies for Overcoming Obsessional Doubt.

Realization, not confrontation, is the key to your freedom.

Frederick Aardema, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and co-creator of Inference-based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT), an innovative approach to treating Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). As a professor, researcher, and seasoned clinician who has treated hundreds of patients, Dr. Aardema has spent nearly three decades advancing I-CBT as a comprehensive solution for OCD, helping both those seeking a fresh perspective and those unresponsive to traditional methods. His pioneering contributions continue to redefine OCD treatment, offering new hope and effective pathways to recovery for individuals around the world through his research, publications, and ongoing clinical trials.