The Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): The Pastoral Knowledge Explosion

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Abstract

Notes that although the obsessive compuslive disorder (OCD) is rich in religious qualities, it has tended to be neglected by pastoral counselors as well as by the secular mental health community. Observes that current OCD studies throw light on some historic figures, including leaders in various religious traditions. Challenges the pastoral arts and sciences to rethink some basic theological and biblical understandings OCD from its perspective of neurological and biological inheritance, thus providing pastoral services fresh new opportunities and openings