David Adam

The Man Who Couldn't Stop

The Truth About OCD

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An intimate look at the power of intrusive thoughts, how our brains can turn against us and what it means to live with obsessive compulsive disorder.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International / Picador
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 131mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9781447277682
• ISBN-10: 1447277686
• Artikelnr.: 41429507

Autorenporträt

Dr David Adam is a writer and editor at Nature, the world's leading scientific journal. Before that he was a specialist correspondent on the Guardian for seven years, writing on science, medicine and the environment. He was named feature writer of the year by the Association of British Science Writers, and reported from Antarctica, the Arctic, China and the depths of the Amazon jungle. The Man Who Couldn't Stop is his personal memoir of life with OCD.

Rezensionen

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 again Sunday Times