In her book The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Washing she argued that OCD was far more common than realised as sufferers were ashamed to admit to it
Judith Rapoport, who has died aged 92, was a leading psychiatrist who rejected Freudian theories based on the workings of the “unconscious mind” to focus on the brain’s biology and its role in mental illness.
She was best known for her 1989 book The ... [4761 chars]