Scholarship



Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Uncertainty: Struggling with a Shadow of a Doubt 

(Lexington Books / Rowman & Littlefield)


In Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Uncertainty: Struggling with a Shadow of a Doubt, Moshe Marcus and Steven Tuber examine the structural and intrapsychic features of the self as presented within OCD compulsive doubting, and more broadly, within OCD compulsions. Marcus and Tuber further elucidate central object-relational paradigms within OCD doubting and suggest a broader framework that can be used to consider the interplay between both the cognitive as well as the affective components required to make judgments.

My theoretical and scholarly interests are in the connections between psychoanalytically-informed models of development and personality and phenomenological accounts of the self. I am particularly interested in the integration of these approaches and their implications for the therapeutic process. My recent scholarship has focused on how these connections can deepen our understanding of obsessive compulsive disorder and chronic indecisiveness.