(Part 3) Best books about compulsive behavior according to redditors

It's a shitty, difficult disease because it has lots of potential causes. I had a combo of terrible gyno and an abusive household and those two things, plus some bad genetic luck, sent me down this path. So my particular treatment is focused on learning how to act on feelings in interpersonal relationships rather than getting stuck in my head in an analytical way.

Here are the books I've read:

Understanding Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Face to Face with Body Dysmorphic Disorder

The latter is the one I posted the photo from, and is extremely readable though slightly more expensive. I've found the latter to be more focused on the patients and I've achieved more insight from it.

Hey, tootiredtoclean. Love the user name; I know the feeling well.

I've posted this before, but I will post it again for you.

Here's what I would suggest doing:


First and foremost, learn about this disorder, so you can understand how your parents' minds work. Let me recommend some resources:

• For a fantastic overview of hoarding disorder, read Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things. Written by the two leading researchers in the field, it gives a great layman's explanation of what hoarding is, and especially how hoarders think. I saw a lot of my parents in that book, and it helped me understand their thought processes whenever they express the "need" to save something.
  
  
  
• There's a lot of books on how to organize your home out there, but you may not know that there's one specifically written for family members of compulsive hoarders. Check out Digging Out: Helping Your Loved One Manage Clutter, Hoarding, and Compulsive Acquiring. This book offers a step-by-step plan to help a hoarder clean up. It focuses on harm reduction (more on that later), and dealing with a hoarder who isn't ready to admit that there's a problem. My only criticism of this book is that the writer assumes that the family members do not live with the hoarder, which is something that can drastically affect the family dynamic, so keep that in mind.
  
  
  
• You might also want to look at Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding. This one is written for the hoarder looking for where to start. The section on behavioral experiments to reduce fear of discarding is extremely helpful, and may give you some ideas.
  
  
• Check out the Children of Hoarders web site and forums. The largest support group for adult children of hoarders. They've got a wonderful community there, and can provide lots of emotional support and advice from experience. They also provide support to younger people (teens, etc.) who are still stuck living at home.
  
  
  
• And you might read Jessie Scholl's memoir Dirty Secret, about growing up with a mother that hoards.
  
  
  Next, accept that you have to go at any clean-up very, very slowly. Your parents didn't get into this mess overnight, and they're not going to get out of it overnight. Unless you have a particularly urgent need--the landlord is threatening eviction, the Health Department called, your parents are getting fined massive amounts of money by the city for their hoarding, or some such--do NOT pressure them to get it all done at once. Focus on making progress, not on how fast things get cleaned up.
  
  
  Go slowly. Expect gradual changes. Excavate one tiny area at a time--one tabletop, one corner, one drawer, one shelf in the medicine cabinet. Even if they remove just one piece a day, or only spend ten minutes cleaning, remember that they are dealing with things. Their disorder means that they just have to do it in baby steps. Remember, this is a marathon, not a sprint.
  
  
  Here's why you marathon this. Hoarding is often associated in the public's mind with OCD, but current research indicates that it has a lot more to do with anxiety disorder than anything else. One common feature that hoarders share is that they experience extremely intense emotional anxiety/pain whenever they part with any of their things. So, in order to avoid the anxiety, they keep everything.
  
  The solution to that is to have the hoarder learn to live with the anxiety for a while, so the hoarder can learn that it doesn't last.
  
  
  Take a look at this post. A hoarder trying to de-hoard gave away a saddle, and posted while she was in the grip of the resulting anxiety. As you look at the comments, you can see that she did eventually work through the most intense part of her anxiety in a couple of days. Now, the next time she gives something away she cares about, she won't feel the anxiety as intensely. Same with the next time, and the next time, and the time after that. And eventually, it will hardly matter if she gives something away she knows she doesn't want anymore.
  
  
  That's the lesson that your parents have to learn--that the emotional pain from the anxiety does pass, and that it gets less intense as they continue to de-hoard. This is why you go slowly. If you go too fast, the anxiety quickly becomes overwhelming, and they either shut down or lash out to escape it.
  
  
  Think of it this way. Imagine that, for every individual object you throw away/recycle/donate--even something as small as a gum wrapper--someone breaks your finger. You quickly realize that, if you through away five gum wrappers, that person will break all five fingers on your hand. For ten, he breaks your whole hand. For a garbage back full of trash? He beats you like Ike beat Tina, and breaks every bone in your body....
  
  
  That's what your parents experience. That's why they resist getting rid of stuff. Keep that in mind, and it will help you not push your parents too fast. It's frustrating, I know, but the fear and pain is very real to them. This also gets to the root of why they resist you--you become the person who's breaking their bones when you try to get rid of their hoard. And just because they can eventually learn that the pain fades doesn't mean that they enjoy getting their bones broken.
  
  (cont'd)

I agree that there are lots of potential pitfalls. I'm torn, though, because some of the thoughts and anecdotes included in the research on touch in therapy are pretty persuasive. (I just finished reading this book 'cause my own thoughts weren't getting me anywhere.)

Now that you have more experience, how would you respond if one of your clients (or clinical supervisors) hugged you?

Check out an audiobook called Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Randy O. Frost. It goes into why people end up collecting so much stuff, the compulsions behind it. It has helped.

Everything In Its Place: My Trials and Triumphs with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

It's okay there. How you could had known? I mean, when you live in a household of crazy people, one starts to think that being crazy is what the sanity really is. You probably had intuitive hunch that what was happening to you was unfair, but had no name to put on it. Your view of reality got crushed under the narc's version of reality. You literally had no other option than to believe that this is how things were supposed to be, and you probably also dodged the issue out of fear that there were some deeper and darker issues lurking beneath the exterior. Nobody wants to believe their parents to be abusers.

One phrase that once stopped me was - did you know that you are supposed to feel good? Feeling good about yourself and life, is the baseline of human experience, not negative nor neutral baseline.

I toss these two books here time to time, but I have found these to be really helpful maps to solve issues caused by narcissistic abuse.

http://www.amazon.com/Complex-PTSD-Surviving-RECOVERING-CHILDHOOD/dp/1492871842

http://www.amazon.com/Parts-Psychology-Trauma-Based-Self-State-Emotional-ebook/dp/B0065Q7TSY/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1449101188&sr=1-2&keywords=Parts+therapy

There are a lot of good books on OCD. For me they've been almost as helpful as therapy (in some ways, maybe more). There's some research to support the idea that people can do ERP on their own and see the same results as someone seeing a therapist, provided that they really understand the method. I'd still see a therapist if possible, but if she can't, then reading extensively is probably the best idea. Here are three books that I highly recommend:

https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Obsessive-Compulsive-Disorder-Personalized/dp/042527389X

https://www.amazon.com/Coping-OCD-Practical-Strategies-Obsessive-Compulsive/dp/1572244682

https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Over-OCD-First-Self-Help/dp/1593859996

Hey!

I am sure that you've done this, but just in case you haven't: make sure to contact the program(s) you're looking at applying to and see what that the prerequisite classes are for each. I got my masters in clinical mental health counseling and my program required a number of basic psychology courses are prereqs.

Aside from that, don't worry too much about what you don't know. If you're looking to get a jump-start you can read through a basic theories textbook (like this one) or some seminal works by notable authors in the counseling/mental health fields like Man's Search for Meaning, Cognitive Behavioral Theory, or Reality Therapy for the 21st Century.

If you don't have a background in psychology then some of these might feel a little abstract, but don't worry! You don't have to understand everything to begin exploring your interests.

I hope this is helpful!

Used to be in the same boat as you. I know, it's really tough and can screw up your day without you even wanting it to. You just wake up from a dream, and, bam, day ruined (granted, my ex was a cheating whore, so my emotions may have been more extreme).

There are several options.

1. You can try the negative approach. You can attempt to deal with the cognitive dissonance by attempting to create a purely negative picture in your mind of your ex. Personally, I don't think this works well. Not only do I feel that it's not healthy emotionally (short-term and long-term), it doesn't work very well. You'll still be thinking of her, just negatively. Which, can be just as bad to wake up to. Instead of a dream, it's a nightmare. Doesn't sound very good.
   
   
2. Create new positive memories to focus on. Instead of attempting to fight the memories head-on, you focus on creating new positive memories with other people. If you like board games, find a board game group on meetup. Watch great comedy movies (Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Airplane! being my go-to movies). Experience new things. Personally, I found this to work well, but it takes effort and isn't always practical and can make you seem needy to your friends.
   
   
3. Can attempt rational emotive behavior therapy. I tried this out a bit, and what little I did did have a pretty massive positive effect on me. There's a sense of accepting life and is a pretty interesting outlook on life. Personally, I used The Practice of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: Second Edition. Granted, when I bought it, the kindle version was half the cost it is now. For the current cost, I dunno. You can rent it for dirt cheap. Only 280 pages, so you could probably down it in a month if you put your mind to it. Plus, you only need to read a couple of the chapters since several of them are dedicated for couples, families, or groups. Last point, if you're hesitant for a particular type of emotive therapy, just know that this type of therapy is one of the most studied types of therapy and is generally regarded as one of the best for helping people. There are shortcomings (as with anything that deals with the human mind), but it generally seems to work for those who can practice it.
   
   EDIT: I double checked my book. The chapters that deal with therapy for groups starts on page 111. So, you can rent it for however long it'll take you to read a little over a hundred pages. If you're dedicated and really want to get through this quickly, could probably get it done in a weekend.

I can also recommend the following:

Not Trauma Alone, Dr. Steven Gold - http://www.amazon.com/Not-Trauma-Alone-Therapy-Survivors/dp/0415763339

Joining Forces, Dr. Howard Fradkin - http://www.amazon.com/Joining-Forces-Empowering-Survivors-Thrive-ebook/dp/B008FQGMY4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1453749362&sr=1-1&keywords=joining+forces+empowering+male+survivors+to+thrive

Challenging Casanova, Dr. Andrew Smiler - http://www.amazon.com/Challenging-Casanova-Beyond-Stereotype-Promiscuous/dp/1118072669

Beyond Betrayal, Dr. Richard Gartner - http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Betrayal-Taking-Charge-Boyhood/dp/1630260363

Betrayed as Boys, Dr. Richard Gartner - http://www.amazon.com/Betrayed-Boys-Psychodynamic-Treatment-Sexually/dp/1572306440/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

I Don't Want To Talk About It, Dr. Terrence Real -
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FC0Q0C/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1

Also you may want to look at the bookstore on MaleSurvivor's website - http://www.malesurvivor.org/bookstore.html

Depends how much work you feel like putting into this. Read about what she might be going through, what treatments are effective, realize the limits of what you can do and you could conceivably create a very helpful adjudicative role in her recovery. By realize the limits of what you can do I mean try to get her a good doctor, don't expect to be her doctor.

https://www.amazon.com/Hate-You-Dont-Leave-Understanding-Personality/dp/0399536213

https://www.amazon.com/Rebuilding-Shattered-Lives-Post-Traumatic-Dissociative-ebook/dp/B000WCTLM4/

https://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Behavioral-Treatment-Borderline-Personality-Disorder/dp/0898621836/

Hoarding has quickly become a potent cultural problem; with it's physiological & psychological tolls on society. [it's one of those hush hush political dilemmas that no really talks about] Dr. Randy Frost writes about it; he's an expert.

on that note, its a good thing the economy tanked.

In one of my classes we are reading a text that might be useful to you - Therapy with Difficult Clients by Hanna. I haven't started implementing it yet at my internship but it's seems very helpful so far:

https://www.amazon.com/Therapy-Difficult-Clients-Precursors-Awaken/dp/1557987939

Two that have been particularly helpful in working with more complex cases are Psychoanalytic Diagnosis by Nancy McWilliams, and Schema Therapy by Jeffrey Young et al. I have several other recommendations for emotion-focused therapy, but I'll limit myself to two I've been coming back to recently, Case Studies in Emotion-Focused Treatment of Depression by Jeanne Watson et al. and Working with Emotions in Psychotherapy by Les Greenberg and Sandra Paivio. And of course, Focusing by Eugene Gendlin.

I replied in a thread, but I'm going to repeat this here. Why_hello_there_op put the situation really well, I want to offer one way to think about approaching it.

Motivation is tricky. If you push, she will fight. If you do nothing it continues. You are stuck between a rock and a hard place. As an addict she is likely stuck in a place of ambivalence, wanting to stop for her health (change) but feeling like she can't because of body/food issues (status quo). You need to try and elicit change talk, making status quo harder and harder to maintain.

You aren't a professional, so all you need to do is try to get her to see a professional. I recommend this book by Miller and Rollnick. It is generalized but extremely worthwhile. Do some searching too, and find some eating disorder focused materials.

http://www.amazon.com/Motivational-Interviewing-Second-Preparing-People/dp/1572305630

This material is a bit dry, but for anyone accepting blame due to cheating it's probably worth skimming through: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1572303670

It's about the anatomy of bad relationships, how each party feels and acts, including the triangle aspect. How events play out and why.

It can be a big relief to recognize that we have played out an incredibly common pattern, when our culture is sending us all these hopelessly unrealistic superficial messages that we're failures, betrayers, at fault, guilty, whatever else.

2nd half:

Peter Giovacchini (1993) – Schizophrenia and Primitive Mental States

http://www.amazon.com/Schizophrenia-Primitive-Ment-Peter-Giovacchini/dp/0765700271/

David Garfield (1994) – Unbearable Affect: A Guide to the Psychotherapy of Psychosis

http://www.amazon.com/Unbearable-Affect-Guide-Psychotherapy-Psychosis/dp/1855755475/

John Steiner (1994) – Psychic Retreats: Pathological Organizations in Psychotic, Neurotic, and Borderline Patients

http://www.amazon.com/Psychic-Retreats-Pathological-Organizations-Psychoanalysis/dp/0415099242/

Murray Jackson and Paul Williams (1994) – Unimagineable Storms: A Search for Meaning in Psychosis

http://www.amazon.com/Unimaginable-Storms-Search-Meaning-Psychosis/dp/1855750759/

Lawrence Hedges (1994) – Working the Organizing Experience: Transforming Psychotic, Schizoid, and Autistic States

http://www.amazon.com/Working-Organizing-Experience-Transforming-Psychotic/dp/1568212550

Vamik Volkan (1995) – The Infantile Psychotic Self: Understanding and Treating Schizophrenics and Other Difficult Patients –

http://www.amazon.com/Infantile-Psychotic-Self-Fates-Schizophrenics/dp/1568213794/

Hyman Spotnitz – Psychotherapy of Preoedipal Conditions: Schizophrenia and Severe Character Disorders (1995) –

http://www.amazon.com/Psychotherapy-Preoedipal-Conditions-Schizophrenia-Character/dp/1568216335/

Clancy McKenzie (1996) – Delayed Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders from Infancy: The Two Trauma Mechanism

http://www.amazon.com/Delayed-Posttraumatic-Stress-Disorders-Infancy/dp/9057025019

Peter Giovacchini (1997) - Schizophrenia and Primitive Mental States

http://www.amazon.com/Schizophrenia-Primitive-Ment-Peter-Giovacchini/dp/0765700271

Brian Martinedale, Ed. (2000) – Psychosis: Psychological Approaches and their Effectiveness.

http://www.amazon.com/Psychosis-Psychological-Approaches-Their-Effectiveness/dp/1901242498

Murray Jackson (2001) – Weathering the Storms: Psychotherapy for Psychosis

http://www.amazon.com/Weathering-Storms-Psychotherapy-Murray-Jackson-ebook/dp/B005WH0PZQ/

Paul Williams (2001) – A Language for Psychosis: Psychoanalysis of Psychotic States

http://www.amazon.com/Language-Psychosis-Psychoanalysis-Psychotic-States/dp/1861561660/

Colin Ross (2004) – Schizophrenia: Innovations in Diagnosis and Treatment

http://www.amazon.com/Schizophrenia-Innovations-Diagnosis-Colin-Ross-ebook/dp/B00IOPWAF6/

Hyman Spotnitz – Modern Psychoanalysis of the Schizophrenic Patient: Theory of the Technique (2004) –

http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Psychoanalysis-Schizophrenic-Patient-Technique/dp/0970392362/

Johannessen, Jan Olav (2006) – Evolving Psychosis: Different Stages, Different Treatments

http://www.amazon.com/Evolving-Psychosis-Treatments-International-Psychological/dp/1583917233

Franco De Masi (2009) – Vulnerability to Psychosis: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Nature and Theapy of Psychotic States

http://www.amazon.com/Vulnerability-Psychosis-Psychoanalytic-Therapy-Psychotic/dp/1855755041/

Ira Steinman (2009) – Treating the Untreatable: Healing in the Realms of Madness

http://www.amazon.com/Treating-Untreatable-Healing-Realms-Madness-ebook/dp/B00582MGQQ/

Yrjo Alanen (2009) – Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Schizophrenic Psychoses: Past, Present and Future

http://www.amazon.com/Psychotherapeutic-Approaches-Schizophrenic-Psychoses-International/dp/0415440130/

Paul Williams (2010) – Invasive Objects: Minds Under Siege

http://www.amazon.com/Invasive-Objects-Minds-Relational-Perspectives/dp/0415995477/

Daniel Dorman (2011) – Dante's Cure: A Journey Out of Madness

http://www.amazon.com/DANTES-CURE-Journey-Out-Madness-ebook/dp/B005UFUW30/

John Steiner (2011) – Seeing and Being Seen: Emerging from a Psychic Retreat

http://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Being-Seen-Emerging-Psychoanalysis/dp/0415575060/

Evelyn Liegner (2011) – The Hates That Cures: The Psychological Reversibility of Schizophrenia

http://www.amazon.com/Hate-That-Cures-Psychological-Reversibility/dp/1936411067/

Paris Williams (2012) – Rethinking Madness: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding and Treatment of Psychosis.

http://www.amazon.com/Rethinking-Madness-Understanding-Treatment-Psychosis/dp/0984986707/

Pamela Fuller – Surviving, Existing, or Living: Phase Specific Psychotherapy of Severe Psychosis (2013) –

http://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Existing-Living-Phase-specific-International/dp/0415516625/

John Read, Ed. (2013) – Models of Madness: Psychological, Social, and Biological Approaches to Schizophrenia

http://www.amazon.com/Models-Madness-Psychological-Schizophrenia-International/dp/1583919066

Ty Colbert (2015) – Healing Runaway Minds: How to Understand and Recover from Major Mental Disorders with Special Emphasis on “Schizophrenia”

http://www.amazon.com/Healing-Runaway-Minds-Understand-Schizophrenia/dp/0989160734/

David Garfield and Ira Steinman (2015) – Self Psychology and Psychosis: The Development of the Self During Intensive Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses

http://www.amazon.com/Self-Psychology-Psychosis-Psychotherapy-Schizophrenia/dp/1782202285/

Christopher Bollas (2015) – When the Sun Bursts: The Enigma of Schizophrenia

http://www.amazon.com/When-Sun-Bursts-Enigma-Schizophrenia/dp/0300214731/

Andrew Lotterman (2015) – Psychotherapy for People Diagnosed with Schizophrenia: Specific Techniques

http://www.amazon.com/Psychotherapy-People-Diagnosed-Schizophrenia-International-ebook/dp/B015CLFL0U/

Sorry to hear that your family's going through a tough time right now. It certainly does sound like OCD (not sure what else it can be). OCD can really get everyone in the family involved - you're certainly not the first concerned relative who's had to watch a dear sibling or child in the grips of the monster that is OCD.

To help her get over this as quickly as possible, be a cheerleader, not a judge. You're not angry at her, you're angry at the OCD, right? Because how dare it have taken over your poor sister like this, and MADE her waste her days doing strange gestures, and forced her to feel these terrible feelings of panic. OCD is being a total asshole to her, and it's not fair! In my own OCD recovery, my partner helped me a lot by pointing this out - when I'd succeed at a therapy exercise even though I was very anxious, he'd say 'Man, I just want to punch your OCD in the face! How dare it go around making you feel guilty and telling you you're a bad person, when I love you so much and know what a nice person you are. We have to fight back against this horrible lying monster!'.

So you need to let your sister know that you love her and that you're on her side, and you want to unite together with her to fight against the OCD. She's ill right now and she needs a coach and a nurse all-in-one to get back to a healthy state.

You say 'she puts herself in a state of fear and anxiety', which sounds a bit blamey, to be entirely honest. She doesn't WANT to do these compulsions any more than you want to watch her do them. At the moment, yes, I think she probably does truly believe that she NEEDS to do these actions or terrible things will happen. From her OCD-influenced point of view, she feels that she's in severe immediate danger and she's just trying to make herself safe. She's not doing these things to annoy you. OCD can feel incredibly convincing, even delusional, especially when it strikes someone very young and untrained in dealing with it. That's why she's going to need a lot of love and support, to feel safe enough to start cutting out the compulsions. You're right that she does have the ability to stop, and that she must begin doing so. But she's young and scared, so you need to really ease her into doing it with lots of praise and encouragement, even for the tiniest baby steps.

Try and get to the bottom of why she has this 'negative attitude' you speak of. It could be that she's not making any effort to recover, sure. It could be that she's stubborn or manipulative, fair enough. But then again, OCD sufferers can come across as irritable, uncooperative or even violent because the fear they feel is so extreme - I mean, if you felt the level of terror that she's probably feeling right now (imagine standing in the middle of the road with a huge truck about to run you over and you're probably close), then you too would want to keep doing the things that made you feel safer rather than the things that seem like pointless distractions! So try to figure out if she's appearing 'negative' simply because she's so scared. You'll need to show her very clearly that it's ok for her to do the things you are suggesting to help her (runs? You mean like, going running? That'll help a bit, sure). If she doesn't see any evidence that she can recover by doing these things, then you need to persuade her with more reassurance and evidence.

Are you getting her the right kind of therapy? It's REALLY important to do this. Sadly, a lot of us OCD sufferers were experimented on like guinea pigs by therapists who fancied trying out whatever fashionable new talk-therapy they liked on us, and actually made our OCD worse, before we finally got the right kind of help. The only kind of therapy that's really been proven to work on OCD is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy plus Exposure and Response Prevention (you'll see these referred to as ERP and CBT on OCD websites). Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) can also help a bit, but if her current therapist is not offering any kind of ERP, sorry, but fire her. If you don't know what kind of therapy she's been giving your sister, ask. Your sister is never going to recover from her OCD if all the therapist wants to do is have wishy-washy chats about her feelings and her childhood, and get her to do relaxing breathing exercises or whatever. That is NOT the scientifically-proven method for fixing OCD and it's a waste of time. ERP works because it involves confronting your fears in a gradual way, which teaches the brain to desensitize and calm down.

It might be helpful to your sister to read up on OCD in an age-appropriate way. If she starts to see that what's going on in her head is not her personal genuine scary problem, but actually a recognised illness that lot of people experience, she should start to view her OCD differently. There are some excellent young-adult books on OCD, fiction and self-help, and if she's into reading, you could buy her a few and encourage her to read about people in the same situation as her. Here's a short list of some that might be best for a twelve-year-old girl:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Breaking-Free-OCD-People-Families/dp/1843105748/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1473007685&sr=8-3&keywords=ocd+children
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Talking-Back-OCD-Program-Parents/dp/1593853556/ref=pd_sim_14_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=PPNTD5PXEVYREB793ZN5
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Free-Ocd-Workbook-Obsessive-Compulsive-Disorder/dp/1572248483/ref=pd_sim_14_11?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=V7FKXWD86S23T76JWGSD
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Am-Normal-Yet-Spinster-Club/dp/1409590305/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1473007884&sr=1-4&keywords=holly+bourne
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rest-Just-Live-Here-shortlisted-ebook/dp/B00X5HR42C/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1473007993&sr=1-6&keywords=ocd+teen

Read up on OCD as much as you can, too. Knowledge is power! OCD can't play its sneaky tricks on you if you're well-educated about it and you see them coming. There are also lots of excellent short videos on YouTube, made by OCD specialists and people who've recovered. For yourself and your sister, I would recommend the channel ShalomAleichem {Mental Health Vlogs}, as these OCD videos are bite-sized, friendly, and run by another teen girl:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBh-jGXvOPvdvqlloYGBLkQ

Good luck with getting some professional help for your sister, and I hope that she's able to find some relief and feel better soon!

I can't easily explain it, I'm still in a process of learning about it myself. But I found this book orienting, which is where my assertions concerning neuroscience and Jung originate from: Neurobiology of the Gods

There are some papers available online that explore the relevancy of Jung's ideas in relation to neuroscience variously but a number of these require pay access. Accessing and researching them via your university library system will probably be more profitable (excuse the pun ;)

Here's some material that crosses neuroscience terrain, albeit these aren't full papers and only address aspects of Jung's oeuvre and/or regions of psychopathology:

Recent Neurological Studies Supportive of Jung’s Theories on Dreaming

Developmental aspects of Analytical Psychology:New perspectives from cognitive neuroscience and attachment theory,
(a chapter taken from the book: Analytical Psychology: Contemporary Perspectives in Jungian Analysis)

Undoing dissociation. Affective neuroscience: a contemporary Jungian clinical perspective