Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior: A Four-Step Self-Treatment Method to Change Your Brain Chemistry ($10.40) by Jeffrey M. Schwartz, M.D.

In Brain Lock, Jeffrey M. Schwartz presents a simple four-step method for overcoming OCD that is so effective, it's now used in academic treatment centers throughout the world. Proven by brain-imaging tests to actually alter the brain's chemistry, this method doesn't rely on psychopharmaceuticals. Instead, patients use cognitive self-therapy and behavior modification to develop new patterns of response to their obsessions. In essence, they use the mind to fix the brain. Using the real-life stories of actual patients, Brain Lock explains this revolutionary method and provides readers with the inspiration and tools to free themselves from their psychic prisons and regain control of their lives.

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Getting Control : Overcoming Your Obsessions and Compulsions ($10.36) by Lee Baer, Ph.D.

The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing brought them to light. Now here is a step-by-step self-help plan for the six million Americans with obsessive-compulsive disorders. In calm, reassuring language, Dr. Baer provides priceless practical guidance for OCD sufferers and their families. As one reader puts it: "This book is great for OCD sufferers looking for ways to practice behavioral therapy. If the nature of your obsessions and compulsions are too abstract to seek structured behavioral therepy sessions, this book is ideal.

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder : New Help for the Family ($15.96) by Herbert L. Gravitz, Ph.D.

Incessant washing of hands is one often-cited symptom of OCD. Continual arranging and rearranging of toys may be a sign of it in young children. Gravitz's book is written mainly for lay readers. As the subtitle--New Help for the Family--implies, the author deals with OCD in the perspective of the network of the family. He doesn't identify the family as the cause of OCD, but rather recognizes that family members are in nearly all cases important in an individual's overcoming OCD. The author covers the inter-related subjects of origins and causes of OCD, recognition of it, self-help, and treatment of the disorder as a family problem in a question-and-answer format which make its many facets, some of them somewhat complex and clinical, comprehensible to the general reader.

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OCD in Children and Adolescents : A Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Manual ($32) by John S. March, Karen Mulle

Duke University Medical Center clinicians offer a treatment program for young people with obsessive-compulsive disorder. It has been shown effective in eliminating or alleviating symptoms in children across a wide range of ages and aptitudes. They provide a session-by-session guide to assessment, treatment planning, and skills-based intervention and include a section on overcoming common therapeutic roadblocks.

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