Scattered Minds
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From renowned mental health expert and speaker Gabor Maté, MD, Scattered Minds explodes the myth of attention deficit disorder (ADD/ADHD) as genetically based—and offers real hope and advice for children and adults who live with the condition. In this breakthrough guide to understanding, treating, and healing attention deficit disorder, Dr. Gabor Maté, an adult with ADD and the father of three ADD children, shares information on: · The external factors that trigger ADD/ADHD · How to create an environment that promotes health and healing · Ritalin and other drugs · ADD in adults …and much more Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD/ADHD) has remained a controversial topic in recent years.
Whereas other books on the subject describe the condition as inherited, Dr. Maté shows how our social and emotional environments play a key role in both the cause of and cure for the condition. In Scattered Minds, he describes the painful realities of ADD/ADHD and its effect on children as well as on careers and social paths in adults. While acknowledging that genetics may indeed play a part in predisposing a person toward ADD/ADHD, Maté moves beyond that to focus on the things we can control: changes in environment, family dynamics, and parenting choices.
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- Random House Digital Inc.
- 9780307374691
- 9780676972597
- ePub
- 0
- Gabor Maté, MD
- English
- 2011-07-27
- 100
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Author’s Note
- Introduction
- Part One: The Nature of Attention Deficit Disorder
- 1 So Much Soup and Garbage Can
- 2 Many Roads Not Traveled
- 3 We Could All Go Crazy
- 4 A Conflictual Marriage: ADD and the Family (I)
- 5 Forgetting to Remember the Future
- Part Two: How the Brain Develops and How the Circuits and Chemistry of ADD Arise
- 6 Different Worlds: Heredity and the Environments of Childhood
- 7 Emotional Allergies: ADD and Sensitivity
- 8 A Surrealistic Choreography
- 9 Attunement and Attachment
- 10 The Footprints of Infancy
- Part Three: The Roots of ADD in Family and Society
- 11 An Utter Stranger ADD and the Family (II)
- 12 Stories within Stories: ADD and the Family (III)
- 13 This Most Frenetic of Cultures: The Social Roots of ADD
- Part Four: The Meaning of ADD Traits
- 14 Severed Thoughts and Flibbertigibbets: Distractibility and Tuning Out
- 15 The Pendulum Swings: Hyperactivity, Lethargy and Shame
- Part Five: The ADD Child and Healing
- 16 It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over: Unconditional Positive Regard
- 17 Wooing the Child
- 18 Like Fish in the Sea
- 19 Just Looking for Attention
- 20 The Defiant Ones Oppositionality
- 21 Defusing Counterwill
- 22 My Marshmallow Caught Fire: Motivation and Autonomy
- 23 Trusting the Child, Trusting Oneself: ADD in the Classroom
- 24 Always on My Case Teenagers
- Part Six: The ADD Adult
- 25 Justifying One’s Existence: Self-Esteem
- 26 Memories Are Made of This
- 27 Remembering What Didn’t Happen: The ADD Relationship
- 28 Moses Saved by the Angel: Self-Parenting (I)
- 29 The Physical and Spiritual Environment: Self-Parenting (II)
- 30 In Place of Tears and Sorrow: Addictions and the ADD Brain
- Part Seven: Conclusion
- 31 I Never Saw the Trees: What Medications Can and Cannot Do
- 32 What It Means to Attend
- Notes
- Bibliography