Sentences with phrase «of obsessional»

Admitting being somewhat mystified by it, Freud suggests that the goal of obsessional neurosis is to ultimately prevent conscious awareness of unacceptable thoughts related to the past in a futile attempt to avoid or mitigate feelings of anxiety.

Although VOCI has been regarded as a «promising new instrument for the assessment of a wide range of obsessional compulsive complaints», there are some concerns about factor structure of VOCI (Thordarson et al., 2004: p. 1309).

The VOCI / Just Right is conceptually similar to Perfectionism / Certainty factor of Obsessional Beliefs Questionnaire (OBQ - 44 / PC)(35 OCCWG, 2005).

Judith Kirshner discusses how the discourse around Kusama's «hallucinatory images of an infinite repeating pattern which spreads and multiplies until it obliterates the physical universe underscores her creative process of repetition while under a spell of obsessional compulsion» and nowhere is this more evident than in her Infinity Mirrored Room installations comprising of mirrors and light bulbs which create optical illusions of infinity.

In an erudite collection of essays on art that sparkle with his sardonic wit, the English novelist Julian Barnes wisely observes: «An artist's career... is more likely to be a matter of obsessional overlap, of ferrying back and forth, of process rather than result, journey rather than arrival.»

Not exact matches

And Micah Watson (of Union in Jackson, TN) used THE UNDERGROUND MAN together with the psychologically penetrating recent films YOUNG ADULT and UP IN THE AIR to illuminate the phenomenon of (obsessional) AMERICAN NIHILISM.

However, freezing or cessation of movement during performance of activities can also occur as part of the uncommon but well recognized manifestation of human OCD known as «obsessional slowness» [43].

with text by Yve - Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss, in French) Screen, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA (curated by Joshua Dechter) Twentieth Century American Sculpture at the White House: Exhibition IV, The Jaqueline Kennedy Garden, The White House, Washington D.C., USA (curated by Marcia Tucker and Hillary Rodham Clinton) Bringing It All Back Home, Gracie Mansion / Fred Dorfman Projects, New York, USA Small Truths: Repetition and the Obsessional in Contemporary Art, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, England (cat.

Bartlett exhibited them in New York in 1981, where they received praise from a number of critics, including New York Times writer Grace Glueck, who placed the work in the tradition of «obsessional stuff that lets us see deep into the makings of art.»

His exhibitions sometimes have a quality bordering on the obsessional, including a show at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh in 2010 that was full of repeated images of steps and numbers.

With unprecedented access not only to the archives but to the working studio and to the artist himself, Martin Caiger - Smith examines the relationship between Gormley's life and art, and identifies the singular and obsessional vision that ties together a vast canon of work in an extraordinary range of media and materials.

These haunting, obsessional interiors were filled with carved body parts and forms, with mirrors and domestic objects of obvious personal significance.

His paintings are a technicolor exploration and celebration of the natural world, evidence of his career - long tradition of pushing boundaries with his obsessional experimentation with color.

Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist who was a self - described «obsessional artist,» known for her extensive use of polka dots and for her infinity installations.

Posited by Klossowski, the «phantom» is an obsessional mental image produced by forces of impulse in the psyche.

The artist incorporates print, graphics, moving images and texts, with an obsessional interest in modes of information, hackers, corporations — and models of information — all amassed into sculptural installations, and inserted ready - mades.

We can admire some pictures made out by cigarettes creating a link between the obsessional, introverted activities of smoking and drawing.

Paranoid control - freakery; an obsessional hatred of any criticism or contradiction; the lust to character - assassinate anyone even suspected of it; a compulsion to control or at least manipulate the media... the majority of the rank and file prefer to face the wall while the jack - booted gentlemen ride by.»

One of my hobbies is birdwatching (not obsessional, just when the opportunity presents).

Among all self - report measures, the Maudsley Obsessional - Compulsive Inventory (MOCI; Hodgson & Rachman, 1977) is one of the measures widely used in OCD studies.

Psychometric Properties of the Persian Version of the Vancouver Obsessional - Compulsive Inventory Inventory (VOCI) in Iranian Non-Clinical Sample

Change in severity of obsessions, compulsions, anxiety, and depression using the following scales: Padua Inventory, Maudsley Obsessional - Compulsive Inventory (MOCI), Yale - Brown Obsessive - Compulsive Scale, State - Trait Anxiety Inventory, and an interference rating scale.

Many of these patients are quite rigid in their avoidance and obsessional patterns, often being as challenging as borderline patients, causing many therapists struggling with these patients.

A comparative study of erotomanic and obsessional subjects in a forensic sample.

This conclusion is supported by Acevedo and Aron (2009) in their meta - analysis of research on the same topic which found that passionate love in long - term relationships can be lasting, it is the obsessional features often found in early stage love that is not.