You likely know what OCD stands for, but many people don't know what having obsessive-compulsive disorder actually means. For therapists like Erin Venker, she often feels like OCD is misunderstood.

Every now and then the concept that OCD can be cured resurfaces somewhere in the media. As a person with lifelong OCD and as a therapist specializing in the treatment of the disorder, I’d like to ...

I got a call from a psychiatrist colleague of mine a while back. He was an old-school Freudian psychoanalyst who had his patients come in twice a week to lie on a couch, talk about their dreams, ...