When the term "magical" is used to refer to OCD-related compulsive acts, it means

a. the person with OCD believes he/she is possessed
b. compulsive behaviors sometimes result in unexplainable physical phenomena.
c. the compulsions have no logical relation to the obsessions.
d. many magicians have been diagnosed with OCD.


c

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