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.
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.
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*
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 work
*Observer*
Combines a scientific account of OCD from ancient times to the most
recent research with passages of tenderly written memoir
*Telegraph*
The Man Who Couldn't Stop is quite simply book of the year, on
living with OCD: just buy it now
*Adam Rutherford*
Superb... A brave and helpful contribution to deepening our
understanding of the intricate complexities of mental
ill-health
*The Times*
Adam recounts his journey with humour and detachment
*Literary Review*
[An] engaging, exhaustively researched neuro memoir, a blend of
brain science and personal history
*Evening Standard*
This blew me away. Stunning
*Guardian*
An insider's tour of the OCD brain, providing insight into the
cultural and scientific evolution of how we view and treat a
disorder that affects up to 3% of people worldwide
*Nature*
A captivating first-person account of how a blizzard of unwanted
thoughts can become a personal nightmare. At times shocking, at
times tragic, at times unbelievably funny, it is a wonderful
read
*Focus*
A lucid, humane - only intermittently autobiographical - science
book ... offers a clear history through riveting case studies and
the work of key figures
*Metro*
David Adam, a successful writer, is also a sufferer of obsessive
compulsive disorder ... He covers the history of OCD, the
treatments that have been tried without success, and his experience
of cognitive behavioural therapy, CBT, which was greatly helpful. A
well-written, thorough account
*Independent*
Well-researched, witty, honest and irreverent, Adam's account
proves as irresistible as his subject
*Kirkus Reviews*
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