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Mental Rituals

Mental Rituals is a type of covert compulsive behavior in which an individual engages in repetitive cognitive acts, such as mentally reviewing events, counting, praying, or suppressing intrusive thoughts, to reduce distress or prevent perceived harm, particularly characteristic of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and frequently observed in the perinatal subtype.

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Mental Compulsions

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Why ritualized behavior? Precaution Systems and action parsing in developmental, pathological and cultural rituals

Pascal Boyer, Pierre Liénard · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 2006 · 600 citations

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Obsessive-Compulsive Symptom Dimensions as Predictors of Compliance with and Response to Behaviour Therapy: Results from a Controlled Trial

David Mataix‐Cols, Isaac Marks, John H. Greist et al. · Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics · 2002 · 498 citations

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Modification of expectations in cases with obsessional rituals

Victor Meyer · Behaviour Research and Therapy · 1966 · 408 citations

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Effectiveness of exposure and ritual prevention for obsessive-compulsive disorder: Randomized compared with nonrandomized samples.

Martin E. Franklin, Jonathan S. Abramowitz, Michael J. Kozak et al. · Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology · 2000 · 386 citations

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Treatment of Chronic Obsessive-Compulsive Neurosis by <i>in-vivo</i> Exposure

I. M. Marks, Ray Hodgson, S. Rachman · The British Journal of Psychiatry · 1975 · 316 citations

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Authors

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  1. IM
    Isaac Marks

    Maudsley Hospital, United Kingdom

    7 publications · 678 citations

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    Jonathan S. Abramowitz

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

    5 publications · 572 citations

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  3. IM
    I. M. Marks

    Maudsley Hospital, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 576 citations

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  4. ME
    Martin E. Franklin

    University of Pennsylvania, United States

    4 publications · 577 citations

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    Paul Lelliott

    Royal College of Psychiatrists, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 195 citations

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Institutions

175

  1. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    7 h-index

    12 publications

    1.8K citations

  2. Tel Aviv University

    Tel Aviv, Israel

    5 h-index

    12 publications

    581 citations

  3. Massachusetts General Hospital

    Boston, United States

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    736 citations

  4. Maudsley Hospital

    London, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    172 citations

  5. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    173 citations

  6. McMaster University

    Hamilton, Canada

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    144 citations

  7. Drexel University

    Philadelphia, United States

    3 h-index

    11 publications

    795 citations

  8. Bucknell University

    Lewisburg, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    86 citations

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Venues

  1. The British Journal of Psychiatry

    BJP · 8 publications · 849 citations

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  2. PubMed

    Repository · 7 publications · 228 citations

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  4. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

    4 publications · 247 citations

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  5. Psychiatry Research

    3 publications · 363 citations

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