The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Washing: Experience and Treatment of Obsessive-compulsive Disorder - Softcover

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An adolescent boy spends six hours a day washing himself – and still cannot believe he will ever be clean. A woman, in an attempt to make her eyebrows symmetrical, finally plucks out each and every hair. Another person cannot go through a door without completing an elaborate ritual.

All these people are suffering from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, OCD, a disease which is now thought to affect more than a million people in Britain alone. But until now, sufferers have been silent, ashamed of their bizarre behaviour.

'The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing' is the first book to explain about OCD. It tells the stories of the afflicted, often in their own words. More importantly, it describes the successes doctors and patients have had with both experimental and existing treatments during the last eighteen years, at last offering hope to OCD sufferers.

"Deeply moving and impressive"
OLIVER SACKS

"Highly readable and engaging … deserves to be read"
ANTHONY CLARE

"A remarkable treatise … fascinating"
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