... they take, and how they can be dealt with is not nearly so straightforward. It is these questions that have led to the development of a number of competing views. The Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic (in this circumstance these terms prove to be interchangeable) view focuses on internal, unconscious conflicts their and displacement. The Cognitive-Behavioural viewpoint bases itself on a lowering of defence mechanisms that allows anxiety to develop to the extent that self-perpetuating obsessive-compulsive cycles are formed. Although these two viewpoints are seen by the psychological community as opposed, the lack of empirical evidence means that neither can be said to be totally correct, and thus it is not impossible that the two may be reconciled to some extent. When discussing the understanding of Obsessive-Compulsive disorder from the two aforementioned viewpoints, it is useful to note that they both have strengths and weaknesses, and these do not appear to overlap. Namely, ...

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