Judith Rapoport

Judith Livant Rapoport (July 12, 1933 – March 7, 2026) was an American psychiatrist. She was the chief of the Child Psychiatry Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.

Her research focused on diagnosis in child psychiatry, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and obsessive–compulsive disorder. Rapoport's research group at NIMH also studies clinical phenomenology, neurobiology, and treatment of childhood-onset schizophrenia.

Rapoport was the author of the bestselling book, ''The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing: The Experience and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder'' (Plume, 1989), about obsessive–compulsive disorder. Provided by Wikipedia