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  The term Obsession may refer to:

Psychology

  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder
    Obsessive-compulsive disorder

    Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a mental disorder most commonly characterized by Intrusive thoughts, repetitive thoughts resulting in compulsive behaviors and mental acts that the person feels driven to perform, according to rules that must be applied rigidly, aimed at reducing anxiety by preventing some dreaded event or by resolving a more...
     (OCD), a mental disorder
  • Obsessive love
    Obsessive love

    Obsessive love is a form of love where one person is emotionally obsessed with another....
  • Sexual obsessions
    Sexual obsessions

    Sexual obsessions are obsessions with sex, and in the context of Obsessive-compulsive disorder these are extremely common . Sexual obsessions can become extremely debilitating, making the sufferer ashamed of the symptoms and reluctant to seek help....


Literature

  • Obsessed (novel)
    Obsessed (novel)

    Obsessed is a 2005 thriller novel by Christian author Ted Dekker....
    , 2005 thriller
  • Obsession (book)
    Obsession (book)

    Obsession is a non-fiction book written by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker about the psyches of serial killers, serial rapists, stalkers, and their victims, as well as how to fight back....
    , 1998 nonfiction book about criminal obsession, and how victims can fight back


Film

  • Ossessione
    Ossessione

    'Ossessione' is a 1943 film based on the novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain. Luchino Visconti?s first feature film, it is considered by many to be the first Italian Italian neorealism film, though there is some debate about whether such a categorization is accurate....
     (lit. Obsession), a 1943 neorealistic classic directed by Luchino Visconti
    Luchino Visconti

    Luchino House of Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo was an Italian theatre director and film director and writer, best known for films such as The Leopard and Death in Venice ....
  • Obsession (1949 film)
    Obsession (1949 film)

    Obsession is a 1949 in film cinema of the UK crime film directed by Edward Dmytryk. It was entered into the 1949 Cannes Film Festival. ...
    , a 1949 British thriller directed by Edward Dmytryk
    Edward Dmytryk

    Edward Dmytryk was an United States film director who was amongst the Hollywood blacklist#The Hollywood Ten and other 1947 blacklistees, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who served time in prison for being in contempt of Congress during the McCarthy era Second Red Scare....
  • Obsession (film)
    Obsession (film)

    Obsession is a 1976 in film psychological thriller/mystery fiction directed by Brian De Palma, starring Cliff Robertson, Genevi?ve Bujold, and John Lithgow....
    , a 1976 psychological thriller/mystery
  • Obsession, alternate title for the 1980 Canadian film Circle of Two
    Circle of Two

    Circle of Two is a 1980 in film Canada film. It starred Richard Burton as a 60-year old artist who falls in love with a sixteen-year-old Tatum O'Neal....
    , which starred Richard Burton and Tatum O'Neil
  • Twisted Obsession
    Twisted Obsession

    Twisted Obsession is a 1990 Spain-made erotic thriller, starring Jeff Goldblum and Miranda Richardson.Goldblum stars as a screenwriter who becomes involved with a young incestuous brother and sister....
    , a 1990 Spanish erotic thriller
  • Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West
    Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West

    Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West, also called Obsession, is a controversial 2006 documentary film about radical Islamism teachings and goals which uses extensive Arab world and Iranian television footage....
    , a controversial 2005 American documentary film about radical Islamist teachings and goals
  • Obsession (porn star)
    Obsession (porn star)

    Obsession is a former United States pornographic actor....
     (b. 1976), an adult film actress


Television

  • "Obsession" (Star Trek), a 1967 episode of Star Trek: The Original Series
  • Magnificent Obsessions
    Magnificent Obsessions

    Magnificent Obsessions is a Canadian documentary TV series that ran in 2002 and 2003 on the Life Network. The series ran in six-parts. It was shot on location in Canada, England, Romania and Holland....
    , a 2002-3 Canadian documentary
  • Obsession (X-Men episode), 1994 episode from season 3 of X-Men


Music

  • Idée fixe redirects here. In music it refers to leitmotif
    Leitmotif

    A leitmotif is a recurring musical Theme , associated with a particular person, place, or idea. The word has also been used by extension to mean any sort of recurring theme, whether in music, literature, or the life of a fictional character or a real person....
  • Bad Obsession, a 1991 song by Guns N' Roses
  • The Obsessed
    The Obsessed

    The Obsessed was a doom metal band from Maryland led by Scott Weinrich, who also fronted Saint Vitus , Spirit Caravan, Place of Skulls and The Hidden Hand ....
    , an American doom metal band (1977-1995)
  • Obsessions (record label)
    Obsessions (record label)

    Obsessions is a subsidiary of Black Sun Empire Recordings.See also* List of record labels* List of jungle and drum n bass record labels...
  • Obsession (album)
    Obsession (album)

    Obsession is the title of a number of music albums:* Obsession , by smooth jazz artist Bob James * Obsession , by British rockers U.F.O.* Obsession , by Dive...
    , Various albums by different artists that are named Obsession
  • Obsession (band)
    Obsession (cuban hip-hop)

    HistoryAlexey Rodriguez or ?el tipo este? and Magia Lopez are two members of the Cuban band Obsesion. They have been writing and playing music since 1996....
    , Hip-hop band
  • Obsession (band)
    Michael Vescera

    Michael Vescera is a singer for various bands and projects like Loudness , Obsession , Yngwie Malmsteen , Dr. Sin , Roland Grapow or his own band MVP ....
    , Heavy Metal band


Songs
  • "Obsession" (song)
    Obsession (song)

    "Obsession" is a 1985 in music song recorded by New Wave music synthpop-dance music group Animotion. The song hit number six in the United States, and number five in the United Kingdom in early 1985, helped by a distinct video that received heavy rotation on MTV....
    , 1985 hit single by musical band Animotion
    Animotion

    Animotion was a 1980s U.S. New Wave music/synthpop band best known for their songs "Obsession " , "Let Him Go", "I Engineer" and "Room to Move"....
  • "Obsession", a song from the 1991 album Massive Luxury Overdose
    Massive Luxury Overdose

    Massive Luxury Overdose is Army of Lovers' second studio album. It's AoL's most successful album by selling more than 3,2 million copies worldwide....
     by Army of lovers
  • "Obsession
    Obsession (Tiësto song)

    "Obsession" is a single which appeared in DJ Ti?sto first album, In My Memory in 2002, the track features the production of Tom Holkenborg also known as Junkie XL....
    ," a song from the 2001 DJ Tiësto album In My Memory
  • "Obsession", a song by See-Saw and the opening theme to the 2002/2003 anime series .hack//Sign
    .hack//SIGN

    .hack//Sign is an anime television series directed by Koichi Mashimo and produced by studio Bee Train and Bandai Visual, that makes up one of the four original storylines of the .hack franchise....
  • "Obsession (I Love You)", 2003 single by Amiel, on her debut album Audio Out
  • "Obsession (No Es Amor)
    Obsession (No Es Amor)

    "Obsession " is a single by Frankie J featuring Baby Bash in 2005. The single peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100....
    ", a 2005 single by Frankie J featuring Baby Bash in 2005
  • "Obsession", a song from the 2005 Sugababes
    Sugababes

    Sugababes are a BRIT Award-winning pop music group based in London, UK. The group consists of Keisha Buchanan, Heidi Range, and Amelle Berrabah....
     album Taller in More Ways
    Taller in More Ways

    Taller in More Ways is the fourth studio album by United Kingdom girl group Sugababes, released by Island Records on October 10, 2005 in the United Kingdom....


Gaming

  • Obsession (board game)
    Obsession (board game)

    Obsession is a board game released in 1977 in games for two players in which the player wins by moving their ten rings along numbered slots....
    , a board game for two players in which the player wins by moving their ten rings along numbered slots
  • Obsession (computer game)
    Obsession (computer game)

    Obsession is a pinball game for the Atari STe and Amiga computers, made by Unique Development Studios . Merlin Software have bought the rights to the Atari version of Obsession....
    , a 1994 computer game


Other

  • Obsession (perfume), a perfume by Calvin Klein
  • Obsession (Spiritism)
    Obsession (Spiritism)

    Obsession is one of the cornerstones of the religious activity within Spiritism. It is defined by Allan Kardec as the interference of a subjugating spirit on a weaker one and, although usually taken for granted as meaning the negative influence of the spirit of an evil deceased person on the mind of another one that is alive, can occur either...
    , a type of psychic disorder induced by the influence of an evil spirit as defined by Spiritism
  • Obsession (porn star)
    Obsession (porn star)

    Obsession is a former United States pornographic actor....
    , an adult entertainer
  • Obsession Telescopes
    Obsession Telescopes

    Obsession Telescopes is an American Optical telescope and optics manufacturer that specializes in Dobsonian telescopes. It was started in 1989 by David Kriege and is based in Wisconsin, USA....
    , a telescope maker of the USA


See also

  • Fixation
    Fixation

    Fixation may refer to the following:In science:*Fixation , the state in which an individual becomes obsessed with an attachment to another human, an animal, or an inanimate object...