Scattered : how attention deficit disorder originates and what you can do about it

Scattered How attention deficit disorder originates and what you can do about it

Gabor Maté

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Subjects
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder > Psychological aspects.
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder > Environmental aspects.
Published
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Dutton 1999.
Language
English
Main Author
Gabor Maté (-)
Edition
First American edition
Item Description
Published in paperback by Plume in 2000.
Physical Description
xix, 348 pages
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9780452279636
9780525944126
  • Acknowledgments
  • Author's Note
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. 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 2. 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 3. The Roots of ADD in Family and Society
  • 11. An Utter Stranger: ADD and the Family (11)
  • 12. Stories within Stories: ADD and the Family (111)
  • 13. This Most Frenetic of Cultures: The Social Roots of ADD
  • Part 4. The Meaning of ADD Traits
  • 14. Severed Thoughts and Flibbertigibbets: Distractibility and Tuning Out
  • 15. The Pendulum Swings: Hyperactivity, Lethargy and Shame
  • Part 5. 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 6. 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 (1)
  • 29. The Physical and Spiritual Environment: Self-Parenting (11)
  • 30. In Place of Tears and Sorrow: Addictions and the ADD Brain
  • Part 7. Conclusion
  • 31. I Never Saw the Trees: What Medications Can and Cannot Do
  • 32. What It Means to Attend
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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