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

Author: Judith L Rapoport

All of these people are suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), an emotionally crippling disease that afflicts up to six million Americans. Sufferers are powerless to stop petty thoughts and pointless rituals - cleaning, counting, avoiding, checking - which they repeat over and over until they feel they have "gotten 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 existing treatments. The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing offers new hope for OCD patients and their families. This important book is for everybody who is fascinated by the workings of the human mind.

Publishers Weekly

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric disease that afflicts approximately four million Americans with a need to perform complex, pointless rituals, or to be completely preoccupied with petty thoughts. ``Casebook, shocking report and support tool all in one, this excellent volume is highly readable and free of jargon,'' reported PW . (Jan.)

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	vii
	Introduction	1
Part I	The Patients Speak: Parents
1	The Auto Accident That Never was	21
2	Rituals and Contaminations: Zach and His Family	43
Part II	The Patients Speak: Children
3	Paul: Stuck in the Doorway	67
4	Arnie: The Paper Route	72
5	Morris: Mr. Clean	75
Part III	A Doctor's Perspective
6	The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing	82
7	The Doubting Disease	87
8	Is Ocd A Brain Disease?	89
9	Unlearning to Understand	97
10	Anafranil: A Wonder Drug?	102
11	David's Drug Odyssey	105
12	How Sweet it is!	108
13	The Hidden	110
14	No Joke	115
15	The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round	119
16	My Mind on My Mind	124
17	Over and Over Again	129
18	The Secret Life of A Street Person	132
19	Count Me Out	137
20	Love Story	142
21	Aids: The New Obsession	146
22	The Hair-Pulling Women	149
23	Innocent Sinners	154
24	A Thousand Commitments to God	159
Part IV	On the Boundaries
25	The Obsessionality of Everday Life	177
26	Knock Wood	185
27	Grooming and Nesting	187
28	I Can't Get You Out of My Mind	200
29	Free Will and the Uncertainty of Knowing	207
Part V	Do You Have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
30	Making the Diagnosis	223
31	What to do if You Have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder	228
	Epilogue	235
Appendix	The Religious Perspective	237
	References and Suggested Reading	247
	Index	251