[Treatment of a case of chronic obsessive troubles through combined behavioral therapy (author's transl)].

Behavior therapy of a young man, suffering from grave obsessive and compulsive troubles is the first example of combined therapy, with individual therapy, family therapy as group therapy. Two steps are find in the cure. There are benefits--trust and hope--due to psychiatric hospitalization and generous and constant affection of the sponse. The sponse was the key of reciprocal inhibition necessary to the control of anxieties due to the treatment. The aim reached was the control of obsessions and compulsions lasting for more than sixteen years.