How long does it take to read The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing?
Judith L. Rapoport
The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing by Judith L. Rapoport takes about 4 hours 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 47 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1989. 261 pages, about 71,775 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 47 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 59 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Up to six million Americans are afflicted with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), a serious, emotionally crippling disease. Cleaning, counting, washing, checking, avoiding—these are just some of the rituals that sufferers are powerless to stop. Now an expert on OCD reveals breakthroughs in diagnosis, successful new behaviorist therapies, drug treatments, and more.
Subjects: Case studies, Habit, Medical, Nonfiction, Obsessive-compulsive disorder, Obsessive-compulsive neurosis
