obsessional
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Her work has a continuity, an obsessional quality that transcends any one given form and reflects instead on the eccentric and brilliant slant of her personality and perspective.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025
It's all to do with the mind-body connection, says Dr Heather Sequeira, a clinical psychologist who specialises in anxiety and obsessional behaviours.
From BBC • Nov. 3, 2023
But it's an obsessional quest to find the hand she held.
From Salon • Jun. 23, 2023
In some situations exposure therapy can take place in settings — like a grocery store, parking lot or playground — pertinent to the client’s specific obsessional triggers, Yeh says.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 3, 2022
There was an obsessional element to it that put me off.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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