e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Booklist Review
Library Journal Review
Publisher Weekly Review
Table of Contents
More Content
More by this author
Adam, David, 1972-
Subjects
Adam, David, 1972- -- Mental health.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder -- Patients -- Biography.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder -- Anecdotes.
Compulsive behavior -- Patients -- Biography.
Compulsive behavior -- Anecdotes.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Adam, David, 1972-
by title:
The man who couldn't...
by call number:
616.85227 A193m
Search the Web
Adam, David, 1972-
Adam, David, 1972- -- Mental health.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder -- Patients -- Biography.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder -- Anecdotes.
Compulsive behavior -- Patients -- Biography.
Compulsive behavior -- Anecdotes.
MARC Display
The man who couldn't stop : OCD and the true story of a life lost in thought / David Adam.
by
Adam, David, 1972-
Sarah Crichton Books, 2015.
Call #:
616.85227 A193m
Subjects
Adam, David, 1972-
--
Mental health.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
--
Patients
--
Biography
.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
--
Anecdotes.
Compulsive
behavior
--
Patients
--
Biography
.
Compulsive
behavior
--
Anecdotes.
ISBN:
9780374223953 (hc.)
0374223955 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Obsessive-compulsive disorder and the true story of a life lost in thought
Edition:
First American edition.
Description:
324 pages ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Our siege mentality
--
Bad thoughts
--
The mademoiselle and the rat man
--
An emerging obsession
--
The OCD family
--
Cruel to be kind
--
The God obsession
--
Animals and other relatives
--
Man hands on misery to man
--
The runaway brain
--
Daddy's little helper
--
The helicopter view
--
Long live lobotomy
--
Politics and prejudice
--
A new dimension
--
Final thoughts.
Summary:
"The power of intrusive thoughts, how our brains can turn against us, and living with obsessive
compulsive
disorder. 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, David Adam explores the weird thoughts that exist within every mind, and how they drive millions of us toward obsession and compulsion. Adam, an editor at Nature and an accomplished science writer, has suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder for twenty years, and this is his unflinchingly honest attempt to understand the condition and his experiences. What might lead an Ethiopian schoolgirl to eat a wall of her house, piece by piece, or a pair of brothers to die beneath an avalanche of household junk that they had compulsively hoarded? At what point does a harmless idea become a blinding blizzard of unwanted thoughts? A book that will challenge the way you think about what is normal and what is mental illness. The haunting story of a personal nightmare and a fascinating doorway into the darkest corners of our minds.
"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 ... fusion of science, history, and memoir, [science editor and writer] David Adam explores the weird thoughts that exist within every mind and explains how they drive millions of us toward obsession and compulsion"--Dust jacket flap.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Due Date
Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
616.85227 A193m
Adult books
Adult Display 1
Add Copy to MyList
Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
616.85227 A193m
Adult books
Checked out
Jul 05, 2024
Add Copy to MyList
Musquodoboit Harbour Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
616.85227 A193m
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.