un thérapeute plus enclin à la psychanalyse (ou aux « thérapies d'exploration ») peut essayer de creuser jusqu'à ces traumatismes antérieurs et découvrir pourquoi la personne engendre ces mythes (ou même des croyances magiques ou des impulsions archaïques). Mais le thérapeute cognitiviste a tendance à tout simplement attaquer le mythe de front. La

Another reason Harm OCD gets so little attention is that its sufferers may be less easily portrayed in the media than those with obvious physical compulsions (such as excessive washing or checking), so people are not used to “seeing” it.

Research shows that this part of the CBT approach is not what is powerful about it, and it often doesn’t work as well as learning to accept that we are having unpleasant emotions and thoughts and then working to reduce their role in our lives instead of trying to get rid of them.

The goal here is not to make obsessive thoughts simply disappear—they won’t, in the short run—but, rather, to be in control of your responses to them.