Synopsis
A Sunday Times Bestseller
Have you ever had a strange urge to jump from a tall building, or steer your car into oncoming traffic? You are not alone. In this captivating fusion of science, history and personal memoir, writer David Adam explores the weird thoughts that exist within every mind, and how they drive millions of us towards obsessions and compulsions.
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Details
12 February 2015336 pages
9781447277682Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Clear-sighted and eminently accessible ... a fundamentally important book that will bring a breath of fresh understanding to sufferers - as well as mental-health professionals, and family and friends of anyone who exhibits symptoms of OCD. I urge anyone to buy it. It will make you think againSunday Times
A fascinating study of the living nightmare that is obsessive compulsive disorder ... one of the best and most readable studies of a mental illness to have emerged in recent years ... an honest and open and, yes, maybe life-changing workMatt Haig, Observer
Combines a scientific account of OCD from ancient times to the most recent research with passages of tenderly written memoirTelegraph
The Man Who Couldn't Stop is quite simply book of the year, on living with OCD: just buy it nowAdam Rutherford
