Judith L.
Rapoport, an American psychiatrist, died on March 7, 2026, at age 92. She was chief of the Child Psychiatry Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
Born Judith Helen Livant in New York City on July 12, 1933, she focused her research on diagnosis in child psychiatry, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Her research group at NIMH also studied the clinical phenomenology, neurobiology and treatment of childhood-onset schizophrenia. She was the author of the bestselling 1989 book The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Washing: The Experience and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
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.