In this chapter, a father, a psychologist with obsessive-compulsive disorder, and his wife, a social worker, talk about life with this illness and about looking for help for their seven-year-old son, who suffers from the same problem as his father.
An edition of The boy who couldn't stop washing
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The boy who couldn't stop washing
the experience & treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder
by Judith L. Rapoport
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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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-250) and index.
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