The Treatment of Scrupulosity: Between Theories, Opportunities and Limits

In the psychotherapy scrupulsity that is a subtype of OCD, concentrate on religious preferences and devotions, emphasize the importance of careful attending to the process without breaking the patient's personal boundaries. The therapist tries to do what he has to do in order to apply the etiological explanations in his hand and the interventions it requires, while at the same time trying to avoid the patienst’s belief originality from any damaging understanding and intervention. Psychological etiology and psychotherapy of obsessions differ according to theoretical approaches. With in the framework in this article Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Behavioral Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy currents have been presented with their etiological explanations of religious obsessions and compulsions and their basic interventions in the context of theoretical knowledge and a case study. Also contribution and limits of current theories have been discussed and there have been suggestions on innovative possibilities in theory and practice