influence and change the levels of neurochemicals in our brains.16 Current (secular) psychiatric thought sees the body/brain as the final common pathway for the disordered thinking and behavior that comprise the diagnostic criteria for OCD. Because psychiatry’s anthropology is monistic—we consist of one material substance—the cause of the person’s dysfunction must ultimately be assigned to body/brain. In other words, disordered neural circuitry in the brain is the culprit in OCD, even if it is acknowledged
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