Instinctual impulses in obsessive compulsive disorder: A neuropsychological and psychoanalytic interface

Mukhopadhyay, Pritha; Tarafder, Sreemoyee; Bilimoria, Dinaz D.; Paul, Debika; Bandyopadhyay, Gautam

doi:10.1016/j.ajp.2010.10.002

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“…On the one hand, we have previously speculated that PEDs’ slow performance may not represent a bona fide neurocognitive weakness, but rather a more deliberate style of responding, possibly related to the PEDs’ personality traits or their need to inhibit their sexual preferences in the course of ordinary daily activities (Eastvold et al, 2011; Suchy et al, 2009b). In fact, recent research suggests that speed of performance can be related to personality traits (Pearman, 2009; Rindermann & Neubauer, 2001), maladaptive perfectionism (Moretz & McKay, 2009), and sexual inhibition and guilt (Mukhopadhyay, Tarafder, Bilimoria, Paul, & Bandyopadhyay, 2010). On the other hand, PEDs’ weakness in processing speed could be related to a fundamental neurodevelopmental anomaly that may be unique to this population.…”

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Understanding processing speed weaknesses among pedophilic child molesters: Response style vs. Neuropathology.

Suchy

Eastvold

Strassberg

et al. 2014

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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Research shows that pedophilic (PED) child molesters exhibit slower performance speed and greater performance accuracy when compared to nonpedophilic (N-PED) child molesters or other criminal and noncriminal controls. The purpose of the present study was to examine whether these differences reflect a slow/deliberate response style among PEDS (as we have previously hypothesized; Eastvold, Suchy, & Strassberg, 2011; Suchy, Whittaker, Strassberg, & Eastvold, 2009a, 2009b), or a fundamental neuropathological weakness in processing speed. Data came from a larger study examining neurocognition among sex offenders. Processing speed in three different domains (motor speed, visual-perceptual speed, and visual-motor integration) was examined in 20 phallometrically identified PEDs, 20 N-PEDs, and 20 nonsexual offenders, using both clinical (Finger Tapping, Symbol Search, Digit Symbol Coding) and experimental measures (Inspection Time Task [ITT]). The ITT assessed speed of visual-perceptual processing independent of response speed. On clinical measures, PEDs exhibited slower visual perception [F(2, 57) = 5.24, p = .008] and visual-motor integration [F(2, 57) = 5.02, p = .010] than the other groups, with no differences for simple motor speed. On the ITT, PEDs performed less accurately than the other groups [F(2, 57) = 3.95, p = .025], clearly indicating that slow processing speed cannot be explained by a deliberate response style. Group differences persisted after controlling for other potential confounds (age, estimate IQ, working memory, ethnicity, and substance use). PEDs' slower performance is due to a fundamental neurocognitive weakness, rather than a slow/deliberate response style. These results are consistent with Cantor et al.'s (2008) work identifying white matter abnormalities among PEDs and provide further support for a neurodevelopmental etiology of pedophilia.

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Understanding processing speed weaknesses among pedophilic child molesters: Response style vs. Neuropathology.

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Eastvold

Strassberg

et al. 2014

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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“…En cuanto a las variables Ira, los participantes con AOC destacaron en todas las escalas excepto en Expresión interna de ira (sentir la ira pero suprimir la expresión) y Expresión Física (reacción airada y puntual mediante gestos físicos). Estos resultados coinciden con lo aportado por Mukhopadhyay et al (2010), en el que los pacientes con TOC obtenían puntuaciones más altas en las subescalas del cuestionario STAXI, específicamente relacionadas con rasgo ira, y puntuaciones más bajas en la expresión interna de la ira frente a sujetos controles sanos. Además, el grupo BOC, como era de esperar, alcanzó mayores puntuaciones en Control interno (control de los estímulos que producen la ira calmándose o relajándose) y Externo de ira (salida controlada de la ira).…”

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Emotional intelligence and anger in adolescents with obsessive-compulsive symptoms

Rosa‐Alcázar¹,

Parada-Navas²,

Olivares-Olivares³

et al. 2021

Behav. Psychol.

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Poor perception, understanding and regulation of emotions often play a key role in the development and maintenance of psychopathological disorders. The aim of this study was to analyze differences in attention, compression, regulation of emotion and anger, taking into account some variables that may influence results (age, anxiety and depression). Participants were 315 adolescents (213 boys and 102 girls) aged between 12 and 18 years old (M= 14.92, SD= 1.98), high (≥ 90th percentile) and low (< percentile 21) ratings in obsessive-compulsive dimension in The Symptom Check List (SCL-90-R; Derogatis, 1975). Statistically significant differences between groups were observed in emotions and anger variables except internal expression of anger and physical expression of anger. Age, anxiety and depression influenced some variables. These findings are relevant for treatment.

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Rigidly Applied Rules? Revisiting Inflexibility in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Using Multilevel Meta-Analysis

Fradkin

Strauss

Pereg

et al. 2018

Clinical Psychological Science

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Several recent models of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) consider it to be a neurocognitive disorder involving inflexibility and disinhibition. Indeed, previous reviews of neuropsychological functioning in OCD suggested impaired performance in flexibility tasks. The current meta-analysis examines whether the reported differences in flexibility can be explained by general underperformance unrelated to flexibility. In addition, the role of feedback processing in inflexibility is investigated. To this end, we integrated evidence from 75 studies that compared patients with OCD with nonpsychiatric controls on at least one flexibility measure, while applying a novel approach in which task scores measuring flexibility were compared with control scores from the same tasks measuring other confounding processes. The results revealed no evidence for inflexibility in OCD, with patients’ performance most parsimoniously explained by nonspecific factors. These results challenge models stressing inflexibility as an endophenotype of OCD. Methodological implications for reviewing cognitive deficits in psychopathology are discussed.

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Instinctual impulses in obsessive compulsive disorder: A neuropsychological and psychoanalytic interface

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References 52 publications

Understanding processing speed weaknesses among pedophilic child molesters: Response style vs. Neuropathology.

Understanding processing speed weaknesses among pedophilic child molesters: Response style vs. Neuropathology.

Emotional intelligence and anger in adolescents with obsessive-compulsive symptoms

Rigidly Applied Rules? Revisiting Inflexibility in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Using Multilevel Meta-Analysis

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