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The psychiatrist has been asked to see a patient who feels a need to continuously wash her hands, now raw from the continuous scrubbing. after consulting with the patient, the psychiatrist concluded that the patient has a disorder characterized by a tendency to perform repetitive actions or rituals called

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This would be obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
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