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

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


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Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: The Patients Speak: Parents 1. The Auto Accident That Never Was 2. Rituals and Contaminations: Zach and His Family Part II: The Patients Speak: Children 3. Paul: Stuck in the Doorway 4. Arnie: The Paper Route 5. Morris: Mr. Clean Part III: A Doctor's Perspective 6. The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing 7. The Doubting Disease 8. Is OCD a Brain Disease? 9. Unlearning to Understand 10. Anafranil: A Wonder Drug? 11. David's Drug Odyssey 12. How Sweet It Is! 13. The Hidden 14. No Joke 15. The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round 16. My Mind on My Mind 17. Over and Over Again 18. The Secret Life of a Street Person 19. Count Me Out 20. Love Story 21. AIDS: The New Obsession 22. The Hair-Pulling Women 23. Innocent Sinners 24. A Thousand Commitments to God Part IV: On the Boundaries 25. The Obsessionality of Everyday Life 26. Knock Wood 27. Grooming and Nesting 28. I Can't Get You Out of My Mind 29. Free Will and the Uncertainty of Knowing Part V: Do You Have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder? 30. Making the Diagnosis 31. What to Do If You Have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Epilogue Appendix: The Religious Perspective References and Suggested Reading Index

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.

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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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780451172020
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Height: 170 mm
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: The Experience and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
  • Width: 107 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0451172027
  • Publisher Date: 03 Dec 1991
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 164 gr


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