A Deep Dive into OCD

Author Rebekah Keen
Publisher Grove Books 2025 £5.95
Format pbk
ISBN 9781788275149

Keen is a pastoral counsellor and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) sufferer. This is an engaging, succinct and readable account of OCD and how it can dominate and disrupt the daily lives of sufferers. It is aimed at Christians in leadership positions, those involved in pastoral care, Christian OCD sufferers and their families. The booklet guides us through the complex and disturbed life of the OCD sufferer and highlights areas when Christianity can both help and hinder pastoral care. There is ‘a complicated relationship between OCD and Christianity – it can both trigger and cure OCD’. Keen comments that OCD is often called the ‘doubting disease’ and sufferers need to be built up in their true identity in Christ. Those of us with an interest in OCD will find this booklet invaluable – highly recommended.

Reviewed by ROGER THORNINGTON

Mental Health