Pathological guilt about moral or religious issues
This article is about pathological guilt over religious or moral issues. For related terms, see Scruple (disambiguation).
Scrupulosity is the pathological guilt/anxiety about moral or religious issues. Although it can affect nonreligious people, it is usually related to religious beliefs. It is personally distressing, dysfunctional, and often accompanied by significant impairment in social functioning.[1][2] It is typically conceptualized as a moral or religious form of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD).[3] The term is derived from the Latin scrupus, a sharp stone, implying a stabbing pain on the conscience.[1] Scrupulosity was formerly called scruples in religious contexts, but the word scruple now commonly refers to a troubling of the conscience rather than to the disorder.[citation needed]
As a personality trait, scrupulosity is a recognized diagnostic criterion for obsessive–compulsive personality disorder.[4] It is sometimes called "scrupulousness", but that word properly applies to the positive trait of having scruples.[5]
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^Abramowitz JS, Jacoby RJ (2014). "Scrupulosity: A cognitive–behavioral analysis and implications for treatment". Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders. 3 (2): 140–149. doi:10.1016/j.jocrd.2013.12.007.
^Deacon B, Nelson EA (2008). "On the nature and treatment of scrupulosity" (PDF). Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy. 4 (2): 39–53. doi:10.14713/pcsp.v4i2.932.
^American Psychiatric Association (2000). "Diagnostic criteria for 301.4 Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder". Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th, text revision (DSM-IV-TR) ed.). American Psychiatric Association. ISBN 0-89042-025-4.
^"Scrupulous". Dictionary.com. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
behaviors related to religion are instances of scrupulosity: strictly speaking, for example, scrupulosity is not present in people who repeat religious...
of an informed conscience but "Catholic" guilt is often confused with scrupulosity, and an overly scrupulous conscience is an exaggeration of healthy guilt...
people and religion because of Ned Flanders's chronic, over-the-top scrupulosity. Lovejoy is the pastor of the Western Branch of American Reform Presbylutheranism...
History. New York: W.W. Norton, 1962 Ciarrocchi, Joseph W. "Religion, Scrupulosity, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder," in Michael A. Jenike, Lee Baer,...
Liguori Publications, written primarily for individuals who suffer from scrupulosity. It is a ministry of the Redemptorists founded by St. Alphonsus Liguori...
2009. ISBN 978-0-300-12381-4 Hunter, Michael, Robert Boyle, 1627–91: Scrupulosity and Science, The Boydell Press, 2000 Principe, Lawrence, The Aspiring...
the presentation of this sacrament, taking into account the concern of scrupulosity, or the exaggerated obsessive concern for detail. This further distinguished...
Bocquillot expressed a certain criticism of a "new practise" born of scrupulosity which did not imitate the gestures of Jesus Christ and for that reason...
pastoral Catholic theology to a coercive rigorism, which induced extreme scrupulosity and forced family members to cut off all communications (i.e. - social...
physical pleasure is seen as a sin. Likewise, mortification for reasons of scrupulosity (which is similar to obsessive-compulsive disorder) is considered very...
directly based on specimens, to him the subject demanded the utmost "scrupulosity and conscientiousness" and an artist must "not arbitrarily model or generalise...
was an accountant at the city prosecutor's office and suffered from scrupulosity and negotiorum gestio. Over time, their daughter Vera became a watchmaker...
the Gerusalemme as he had conceived it, he yielded to the excessive scrupulosity which formed a feature of his paranoid character. The poem was sent in...
historian and essayist Plutarch describes a Roman man possibly with scrupulosity, guilt or anxiety over religious subjects commonly associated with obsessive–compulsive...
present witness by mine own experience· that when divers upon greater scrupulosity then cause, went about to dissuade her majesty (lying then at Richmond)...
disorder, and hoarding. Scrupulosity: Abramowitz has conducted studies on, and developed a cognitive-behavioral model of, scrupulosity (religious obsessions...
learned and exact, but it suffers somewhat from the fact that his extreme scrupulosity as to literal truth caused him to hold too severely in check the wit...
Pierlot as "serious to the point of severity, honest to the point of scrupulosity, a tireless worker, a devout Christian, a patriot, a model of civic,...
Gomidas, "a double victim, of the malice of his enemies and of the un-scrupulosity of his friends, for the intrigues of the second gave pretext and occasion...
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