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

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, checking—these 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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• Brain Lock, Twentieth Anniversary Edition: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior
• Freeing Your Child from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Powerful, Practical Program for Parents of Children and Adolescents
• Stop Obsessing!: How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions (Revised Edition)
• The Man Who Couldn't Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought
• The Imp of the Mind: Exploring the Silent Epidemic of Obsessive Bad Thoughts
• An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things