The Man Who Couldn't Stop
Subtitle: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought
By: David Adam
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780374223953
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Obsessive-compulsive disorder; Anecdotes
Notes: "Originally published in 2014 by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, Great Britain"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: label: Chapter 1
title: Our siege mentality
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter 2
title: Bad thoughts
pagenum: 15; label: Chapter 3
title: The mademoiselle and the Rat Man
pagenum: 39; label: Chapter 4
title: An emerging obsession
pagenum: 61; label: Chapter 5
title: The OCD family
pagenum: 81; label: Chapter 6
title: Cruel to be kind
pagenum: 99; label: Chapter 7
title: The God obsession
pagenum: 113; label: Chapter 8
title: Animals and other relatives
pagenum: 133; label: Chapter 9
title: Man hands on misery to man
pagenum: 151; label: Chapter 10
title: The runaway brain
pagenum: 171; label: Chapter 11
title: Daddy's little helper
pagenum: 189; label: Chapter 12
title: The helicopter view
pagenum: 203; label: Chapter 13
title: Long live lobotomy
pagenum: 221; label: Chapter 14
title: Politics and prejudice
pagenum: 245; label: Chapter 15
title: A new dimension
pagenum: 259; label: Chapter 16
title: Final thoughts
pagenum: 279; label: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 291; label: Notes and references
pagenum: 293; label: Appendices
pagenum: 321