Mental Contamination in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Associations With Childhood Trauma, Alexithymia, and Clinical Symptomatology

Key Points

• This research explores the relationships between mental contamination and variables like childhood trauma in OCD patients.
• Examined associations between mental contamination, childhood trauma, and alexithymia in patients with OCD.
• Focused on clinical assessments and reported symptomatology.
• Mental contamination is associated with childhood trauma rather than OCD symptom severity.
• Alexithymic features are more closely linked to mental contamination than specific OCD symptoms.