According to my psychotherapeutic practice mindfulness+movement therapy could be helpful for obssesive-compulsive behaviour.

In my opinion, mindfulness could be helpful. I particular, reduction od mind wandering due to mindfulness could help in a better management of unwanted thought.

According to my clinical experience, mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT) can be helpful for patients as an adjunct to exposure treatment. Our workgroup recently conducted an open pilot study on the adaptation of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy for patients with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (see Hertenstein et al., 2012; Külz and Rose, 2013). The results showed that MBCT was feasible in patients with acute OCD and that the program was helpful in reducing OC symptoms and well accepted by the participants. Due to the small sample, however, our results should be treated with caution.

Dr Jeffrey Schwartz's Four Step approach to treating OCD the principles of which I've used with much success, is rooted in mindfulness. And I think you'll find that much of recent treatment formulation for OCD is closely related to a mindfulness attitude of detached observation of the urges and thoughts of OCD even of it's not called "mindfulness" by name.

Hi, in India we have a study in progress (RCT) comparing effectiveness of ERP , ERP+Mindfulness & TAU for  OCD. Results are promising. ERP + Mindfulness had not only better outcome, it had very low dropout rates.

Hi Miya,

Just published on Researchgate by Crowe and Mckay:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301330375_Mindfulness_Obsessive-Compulsive_Symptoms_and_Executive_Dysfunction

Good luck,

Peter

Article Mindfulness, Obsessive–Compulsive Symptoms, and Executive Dysfunction

 Anne, above you wrote of adapting MBCT for treating OCD. Does it remain in a group setting or is the standard MBCT group protocol further adapted for individual treatment? Thanks, Naftali

I am a lifelong sufferer of OCD (particularly pure-O) and use mindfulness frequently as a very effective tool for minimizing my obsessions. I think of mindfulness as a corollary of Stephen Phillipson's "let it be there" technique and of Jeffrey Schwartz's "four steps" technique that reduces the four steps to two.

There is not a whole lot of research on this topic.

However, a qualitative study suggested that “the data provide preliminary evidence that patients with OCD find aspects of the current MBCT protocol acceptable and beneficial.”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23114260

It looks like there might be a RCT study on the way:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25886875

According to the ISRCTN registry, the trial has been completed:

http://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN52684820