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False Psychosis in Severe OCD: Diagnostic Illusion, Intellectual Compulsions, and the Philosophy of Misinterpretation (Expanded

2026-02-24

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<h4>Background: </h4> Severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can mimic emerging psychosis when the fear of "going insane" becomes the obsession itself. Misreading this state diverts care away from first-line OCD treatments. <h4>Methods:</h4> Conceptual-phenomenological analysis anchored by a longitudinal single case (self-observation), integrated with current models of OCD circuitry (CSTC), large-scale network...

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Literature Corpus work: a4931ae2-5f46-5f06-8b20-7ac6d732dfe8
DOI: 10.22541/au.177196349.99423799/v1

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