The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing: The Experience and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Mass market paperbound - 1991
by Judith L. Rapoport
Up to six million Americans are afflicted with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), a serious, emotionally crippling disease. Cleaning, counting, washing, checking, avoiding--these are just some of the rituals that sufferers are powerless to stop. Now an expert on OCD reveals breakthroughs in diagnosis, successful new behaviorist therapies, drug treatments, and more.
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All of these people are suffering from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), an emotionally crippling sickness that afflicts up to six million Americans. Cleaning, counting, washing, avoiding, checkingthese are some of the pointless rituals that sufferers are powerless to stop. Now a distinguished psychiatrist and expert on OCD reveals exciting breakthroughs in diagnosis, succesful new behaviorist therapies and drug treatments, as well as lists of resources and references. Drawing on the extraordinary experiences of her patients, Dr. Judith Rapoport unravels the mysteries surrounding this irrational disorder . . . and provides prescriptions for action that promise hope and help.
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- Title The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing: The Experience and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Author Judith L. Rapoport
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Berkley Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date December 3, 1991
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780451172020 / 0451172027
- Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.9 in (17.27 x 10.67 x 2.29 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Dewey Decimal Code 616.852
Media reviews
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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