The definitive classic that has helped more than 400,000 people defeat obsessive-compulsive behaviour, with all-new material from the author

An estimated 5 million Americans suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and live diminished lives in which they are compelled to obsess about something or repeat a similar task repeatedly. Traditionally, OCD has been treated with Prozac or similar drugs. The problem with medication, aside from its cost, is that 30 per cent of people treated don’t respond to it, and when the pills stop, the symptoms invariably return.

In Brain Lock, Jeffrey M. Schwartz, M.D., presents a simple four-step method for overcoming OCD that is so effective, that it’s now used in academic treatment centres worldwide. Proven by brain-imaging tests to alter the brain’s chemistry, this method doesn’t rely on psychopharmaceuticals. Instead, patients use cognitive self-therapy and behaviour modification to develop new response patterns to their obsessions. In essence, they use the mind to fix the brain.

Using the real-life stories of actual patients, Brain Lock explains this revolutionary method. He provides readers with the inspiration and tools to free themselves from their psychic prisons and regain control of their lives.