Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in a Clinical Sample of OCD Patients

"MBCT teaches patients to become more aware of, and to relate differently to, their thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations. Through MBCT, patients will learn skills that allow them to disengage from habitual (automatic) dysfunctional cognitive routines, such as obsessional thinking. As an example, patients are encouraged to relate to thoughts and feelings as passing events in the mind, rather than to identify with them or treat them as accurate representations of reality. The MBCT protocol for OCD patients is adapted from Segal et al.'s original MBCT manual for depression (Segal, Williams \& Teasdale, 2002)."