Previous studies have highlighted the potential therapeutic benefits of receptive individual
music therapy as an adjunct to standard care, in a variety of psychiatric ailments including
mood and anxiety disorders. However, the role of music in the treatment of obsessive
compulsive disorder have not been investigated to date. The present study therefore aimed to
investigate the efficacy of music therapy as an adjunct to standard treatment, on obsessions
in patients with treatment-naïve OCD. Moreover, given the fact that a significant proportion
of patients with OCD have other comorbid mood or anxiety disorders, the question of whether
therapeutic benefits of music could be expanded to also affect concurrent depressive and
anxiety symptoms was explored.