OCD Advocate and Brain-Science Pioneer Judith Rapoport Dies at 92

Judith Rapoport, a leading psychiatrist who popularised OCD with her 1989 book The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Washing and demonstrated a neurological basis for the condition, has died aged 92. Her work helped reveal OCD’s wider prevalence, led a landmark trial showing clomipramine could effectively treat OCD in children, and expanded understanding of ADHD and adolescent brain maturation, shaping modern child psychiatry.