Obsessive-Compulsive Neurosis after Viewing the Fetus during Therapeutic Abortion
- 1 October 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Vol. 30 (4) , 666-674
- https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.4.666
Abstract
A case of obsessive-compulsive neurosis which developed in a young woman after she had viewed the fetus expelled during a therapeutic abortion with hypertonic saline is reported. The treatment, involving both psychodynamic psychotherapy and behavior therapy, illustrates the use and possible interaction of these therapies in the same patient.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Psychiatric Illness Following Therapeutic AbortionAmerican Journal of Psychiatry, 1967
- POST-ABORTION PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS-A MYTH?American Journal of Psychiatry, 1963