Abstract
Cognitive-behavioral Treatment of Obsessive Reading of Car License-Plates The following case study reports the cognitive-behavioral treatment of a 37-year-old patient with obsessive reading of car license-plates and therefrom deduced self-pejorative associations. These obsessive self-depreciating associations to license-plates are regarded as a form of neutralization of aggressive intrusive thoughts. The standardized procedure by Lakatos and Reinecker [1999] was extended by an exposure to the neutralizing obsessions. The reason for this was to adapt a form of response prevention to the neutralizing obsessions. This exposure consisted of a confrontation with the obsessions by forced production and a conditioning of neutral associations to the license-plates instead of the self-pejorative neutralizing obsessions. These successful interventions are described and discussed.

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