A Strategic Description of Rituals
Rational and preventive rituals: These rituals are specific actions that arise from the patient’s belief that doing so can prevent a certain feared situation from happening.
Reparative rituals: The performance of these ritualised actions or thoughts hold the illusion of protection for the person from something that could have happened already.
Propitiatory rituals: The performance of these rituals or thoughts (seemingly magical) appear to make something positive happen, or have the illusion of helping the patient avoid something negative.
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