The case of rat man: A psychoanalytic understanding of obsessive-compulsive disorder
This article discusses case of Mr. Ernst Lanzer known as the “Rat Man” in the history of psychoanalysis. He was diagnosed as a case of obsessive-compulsive disorder by Sigmund Freud known as obsessional neurosis that time. The patient presented to Freud with number of distressing obsessions of which...
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| Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2017-01-01
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| Series: | Journal of Mental Health and Human Behaviour |
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| Online Access: | http://www.jmhhb.org/article.asp?issn=0971-8990;year=2017;volume=22;issue=2;spage=132;epage=135;aulast=Thapaliya |