What Should the Diagnostic Criteria for Ocd Be?

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In the 20th century, the Australian psychiatrist-Sigmund Freud interpreted Obsessions and Compulsions symbolically. Freud's theories make some influence and being well-accepted up to the 1970s although other ideas and treatment also being discovered during that century (Freud, 1917). Freud called OCD as “Zwangsneurose”. This term means obsession in England and means compulsions in America, and the term "obsessive-compulsive disorder" was being developed after compromised of both sides (Rado, 1974).

On the other hands, the behavioural psychology begin to overcome Freudian theories at late 20th century. Some of the model or ideals also became dominant theory to understand OCD but not Freud’s sexual theory. Afterward, DSM being developed by group of psychiatrist and also American Psychological Association (APA). It also being updated from DSM-I to DSM-V thru the years. The symptoms, causes and treatments of OCD also keep being update as the DSM evolving (American Psychiatric Association, 2015).

In the new DSM-5, there are several of disorders that have some similarities in the characteristics being bought together with the OCD’s group of disorder. OCD are now being categorized together with the Anxiety, Trauma-and Stressor-related, and related disorders. For example, there are some driven repetitive behaviours, symptoms or similar course and treatment response being grouped together with the symptoms, treatment and so on OCD’s group. Inversely, DSM-4 does not grouped those symptoms together but scattered it in other areas of disorders (Barlow & Durand, 2014). Besides, the OCD in DSM-5 also have its own group of the diagnostic criteria for the different categories of disorder that contained in the OCD’s group. For example, hoarding disorder and body dysmorphic disorder that previously grouped in somatoform disorder and trichotillomania in impulse control disorders previously are now both being group into the group of OCD which is anxiety disorder (Barlow & Durand, 2014).

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