CBT for OCD is effective because it specifically requires patients to engage with their fears and tolerate high anxiety without resorting to compulsive behaviors.

“What the clinician is actually trying to do is get people to feel more anxiety, not less. What they're trying to get them to do is to short circuit, no pun intended, to intervene in their own neural circuit, I should say, with that relief of anxiety, however brief, brought on by engaging in the comp”

Haesue defines CBT as a therapeutic process that helps clients learn to identify and articulate their internal cognitive and emotional processes.

“You you went through this process where somebody helped you learn to identify and then articulate your internal process.”