The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing: The Experience And Treatment of Obsessive-Compuslive Disorder: The Experience and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - Softcover

Rapoport, Judith L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452263654 ISBN 13: 9780452263659

Publisher: Penguin, 1991

Synopsis

All of these people are suffering from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), an emotionally crippling disease that afflicts up to six million Americans. Petty thoughts, pointless rituals - cleaning, counting, avoiding, checking - that sufferers are powerless to stop, repeating them over and over until they have "gotton it right." In this landmark study, a distinguished psychiatrist and expert on OCD recounts the extraordinary experiences of dozens of her patients, many of whom speak in their own words, and explores the successes of new and exciting treatments. By providing guidelines for diagnosis as well as lists of resources and references "The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing" offers new hope for OCD patients ad their families. This important book is for everyone who is fascinated by the workings of the human mind.

About this title

Review:

"Deeply moving and impressive."
--Oliver Sacks, M.D., author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

"Offers help to millions who suffer in silence."
--Chicago Tribune

"First-rate meticulous clinical observation and state-of-the-art laboratory studies illuminate an important human problem."
--Leon Eisenberg, M.D., Harvard Medical School

"This book, with its information and lively writing, and informed by the author's obvious compassion for her patients, makes an important contribution to understanding an intriguing and irrational illness."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Deeply moving and impressive."
Oliver Sacks, M.D., author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

"Offers help to millions who suffer in silence."
Chicago Tribune

"First-rate meticulous clinical observation and state-of-the-art laboratory studies illuminate an important human problem."
Leon Eisenberg, M.D., Harvard Medical School

"This book, with its information and lively writing, and informed by the author's obvious compassion for her patients, makes an important contribution to understanding an intriguing and irrational illness."
The New York Times Book Review"

"Deeply moving and impressive."
Oliver Sacks, M.D., author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

"Offers help to millions who suffer in silence."
Chicago Tribune

"First-rate meticulous clinical observation and state-of-the-art laboratory studies illuminate an important human problem."
Leon Eisenberg, M.D., Harvard Medical School

"This book, with its information and lively writing, and informed by the author's obvious compassion for her patients, makes an important contribution to understanding an intriguing and irrational illness."
The New York Times Book Review

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"Deeply moving and impressive."
--Oliver Sacks, M.D., author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

"Offers help to millions who suffer in silence."
--Chicago Tribune

"First-rate meticulous clinical observation and state-of-the-art laboratory studies illuminate an important human problem."
--Leon Eisenberg, M.D., Harvard Medical School

"This book, with its information and lively writing, and informed by the author's obvious compassion for her patients, makes an important contribution to understanding an intriguing and irrational illness."
--The New York Times Book Review

-Deeply moving and impressive.-
--Oliver Sacks, M.D., author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

-Offers help to millions who suffer in silence.-
--Chicago Tribune

-First-rate meticulous clinical observation and state-of-the-art laboratory studies illuminate an important human problem.-
--Leon Eisenberg, M.D., Harvard Medical School

-This book, with its information and lively writing, and informed by the author's obvious compassion for her patients, makes an important contribution to understanding an intriguing and irrational illness.-
--The New York Times Book Review

About the Author:

Dr. Judith L. Rapoport is Chief of the child Psychiatry Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Mediacl School, she has been the recipient of the Outstanding Service Award from the U.S. Public Health Service and the Ittleson Prize in Child Psychiatry from the American Psychiatric Association. She lives with her family in Washington D.C.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0452263654
• ISBN 13: 9780452263659
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276