The problem with writing a book about a subject that sits on the interface between science and the humanities is that you will likely either not satisfy either side, or you will satisfy one side and not the other. So it is with Obsession: A History, by Lennard J. Davis, University of Chicago Press, 2008.
In modern clinical psychiatry, the essential features of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are recurrent obsessions or compulsions sufficiently severe to cause marked distress to the individual.
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