Case report: Individual psychodrama for treatment resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder

Despite invaluable benefits from available pharmacological and cognitive-behavioral treatments, partial or complete treatment resistance remains a major area of concern, as resistant juvenile obsessive-compulsive disorder patients usually exhibit severe forms of the illness. We here report the case of a 14-year-old girl who had been successfully treated with sertraline and psychoanalytic psychodrama. The interest of this psychotherapeutic approach in juvenile obsessive-compulsive disorder is discussed. We also report a 10-year follow-up in early adulthood.