Pamela S. Wiegartz, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the Director of the Obsessive Compulsive Disorders Clinic. Dr. Wiegartz is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago and a Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. Dr. Wiegartz has presented widely on the topic of OCD and has published numerous journal articles and book chapters in the area. Her clinical and research interests include OCD subtypes, OCD treatment outcome, and postpartum OCD.
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Representative Publications
Carmin, C.N., Wiegartz, P.S., & Wu, K. (In press). Self-directed exposure in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder. In J.S. Abramowitz (ed.), Handbook of Controversial Issues in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders. New York: Kluwer. Calamari, J.E., Wiegartz, P.S., Riemann, B.C., Jones, R.M., Greer, A., Jacobi, D.M., Jahn, S.C., & Carmin, C.N. (2004). Obsessive-compulsive disorder subtypes: An attempted replication and an extension of symptom-based taxonomy. Behavior Research and Therapy, 42, 647-70.
Miller, L.J. & Wiegartz, P.S. (2003). Post-traumatic stress disorder: How to meet women’s specific needs. Current Psychiatry, 2(3), 25-39.
Carmin, C.N., Wiegartz, P.S., Yunus, U., & Gillock, K.L. (2002). Treatment of late-onset OCD following basal ganglia infarct. Depression and Anxiety. 15(2), 87-90.
Wiegartz, P.S., Carmin, C.N., & Pollard, C.A. (2002). Cognition in Severe and Refractory OCD (pp.361-369). In R.O. Frost & G. Steketee (Eds.), Cognitive Approaches to Obsessions and Compulsions: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment. Oxford: Elsevier.
Abramowitz, J.S., Moore, K.M., Carmin, C.N., Wiegartz, P.S., & Purdon, C. (2001). Acute onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder in males following childbirth. Psychosomatics, 42(5), 429-431.
Carmin, C.N., & Wiegartz, P.S. (2000). Successful and Unsuccessful Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Older Adults. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 30, 181-193.
Wiegartz, P.S., Seidenberg, M., Woodard, A., Gidal, B., & Hermann, B. (1999). Co-morbid psychiatric disorder in chronic epilepsy: Recognition and etiology of depression. Neurology, 53(Suppl 2), S3-S8.
Calamari, J.E., Wiegartz, P.S., & Janeck, A.S. (1999.) Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder subgroups: A symptom-based clustering approach. Behavior Research and Therapy, 37(2), 113-125.
Amir, N., McNally, R.J., & Wiegartz, P.S. (1996). Implicit memory bias for threat in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 20(6), 625-635.
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