The boy who couldn't stop washing

Judith L. Rapoport First published 1989

About this book

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.

Subjects

  • case reports
  • case studies
  • habit
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • obsessive-compulsive disorder
  • obsessive-compulsive neurosis
  • psychology
  • treatment