Prisoners of thought

• Autores: David Adam
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2966, 2014, págs. 36-39
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Most people don't talk about strange thoughts, at least until psychologists take the trouble to ask. A study last year of more than 700 students around the world found that 90 percent of people experience thoughts that disturb, shock and bemuse them. Many of them think about driving their car off the road. A third say they think about grabbing money. More than 40 per cent get an urge to jump from high places, an impulse so common that it has its own name: the high- place phenomenon. Psychologists dub these ideas and urges intrusive thoughts. Here, Adam talks about the obsessive-compulsive disorder.