Dr. Lorrin Koran, M.D., wrote Obsessive-Compulsive And Related Disorders: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide to provide clinicians with state-of-the-art information they can use to help their patients overcome or minimize the effects of the illness OCD.

He combines in one resource the extensive but underutilized research about these disorders together with his own extensive experience.

In each chapter he reviews the history of medical understanding of the condition, diagnostic criteria and the clinical picture, scales for rating symptoms, the disorder's frequency in the population and the range of available treatments, both medications and forms of psychotherapy for which evidence or reasonable suggestion of effectiveness exists.

The data for each treatment, from case reports to large-scale, controlled studies are carefully presented and reviewed so that patients and clinicians will know how to implement them, how confident we are of their effectiveness, and what side effects to consider.

An extensive chapter describes strategies for managing common and uncommon side effects (including sexual side effects), and for deciding what to do about treatment during pregnancy and nursing.

An appendix informs patients and clinicians about books written to help patients with particular disorders, organizations devoted to education and advocacy, and web sites where additional information can be found.