Everything in Its Place Living Successfully With Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

by Summers, Marc

• ISBN13: 9780874779905
• ISBN10: 0874779901
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-04
• Publisher: Tarcher

Summary

In an engaging and intensely personal account, the author reflects on his own battle with obsessive compulsive disorder, describing its impact on his life and on the lives of other sufferers and offering helpful advice on how to transform the ailment into a positive force. 15,000 first printing. Tour.

Author Biography

Marc Summers is the former host of Nickelodeon's popular Double Dare game show, ABC's Home Show, Lifetime's Our Home, and PAX TV's Great Day America. As a national spokesperson for the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation, he has appeared on Oprah, Today, Dateline, and The Howard Stern Show, and been profiled in People and USA Today. Summers lives in Los Angeles. Eric Hollander, M.D., is professor of psychiatry, director of clinical psychopharmacology, director of the Compulsive, Impulsive and Anxiety Disorders Program, and clinical director of the Seaver Autism Research Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Marc's collaborators on this book, Kenneth Wapner and Jennifer Wolfson, run Peekamoose Productions in Woodstock, New York, a company involved in developing, writing, and editing books.

Table of Contents

foreword	xiii
eric hollander
introduction	1	(6)
the public face and the private torment	7	(22)
sunday, day of rest	29	(18)
nurture and nature	47	(24)
adolescent ambition, adolescent angst	71	(18)
waiting at the altar	89	(22)
earthquake	111	(18)
the moment of truth	129	(18)
rock bottom	147	(20)
taking charge	167	(24)
waging war and winning	191	(20)
epilogue	211	(4)
resource guide	215