The ADD myth : how to cultivate the unique gifts of intense personalities

The ADD myth How to cultivate the unique gifts of intense personalities

Martha Burge

Book - 2012

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Subjects
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Behavior disorders in children.
Attention-deficit-disordered children.
Published
San Francisco, CA : Red Wheel/Weiser 2012.
Language
English
Main Author
Martha Burge (-)
Physical Description
xxi, 230 p. ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-230).
ISBN
9781573245821
  • Foreword
  • A Note to Readers
  • Introduction
  • 1. There Is No Such Thing as ADHD
  • The DSM and a Culture of Disorder
  • Medication Goes in Search of Patients
  • Why Schools and Parents Seek Diagnosis
  • Not All Distress or Difference Is Mental Disorder
  • The DSM Is Fallible
  • Too Common to Be a Disorder
  • There Is No Proof of Disorder
  • If Not Disorder, Then What?
  • 2. What Is Intensity?
  • Kazimierz Dabrowski Identifies "Super-Stimulatability"
  • The Five Intensities
  • Intensity: Gift or Disorder?
  • 3. Practice Foundations
  • The Body as the Subconscious Mind
  • The Gatekeeper Between the Subconscious and Conscious Minds
  • The Internal Map of Reality
  • Everything Is Related to Everything
  • The Drug to End All Drugs
  • The Witness
  • 4. Sensual Intensity
  • The Intense Senses
  • How Sensual Intensity Affects Us
  • 5. Sensual Practices: Make Me Safe and Warm
  • Practice 1: Protecting Your Sensually Intense Self
  • Practice 2: Creating a Safe and Hospitable World
  • 6. Psychomotor Intensity
  • You Are an Open Energy System
  • Psychomotor Effects on the Physical Domain
  • Psychomotor Effects on the Emotional Domain
  • Psychomotor Effects on the Mental Domain
  • Being in the Flow
  • 7. Psychomotor Practices: It's My Energy, Dammit!
  • Practice 3: Walk a Mile in My Shoes
  • Practice 4: Being Still and Creating Flow
  • Practice 5: Exercise and Body Dispositions
  • 8. Intellectual Intensity
  • Different Brains
  • Intellectual Intensity and Intelligence
  • Learning and Thinking Patterns
  • Key Traits of Intellectual Intensity
  • Challenges of Intellectual Intensity
  • Intensity and Value Systems
  • Value Levels of Development
  • 9. Intellectual Practices: Building Intellectual Muscle
  • Practice 6: The Magic Word
  • Practice 7: Concentration on a Subject
  • Practice 8: The Lost Art of Contemplation
  • Practice 9: Value Development and Growth
  • A Note on the Practices So Far
  • 10. Creative Intensity
  • Imagination
  • Overactive Imagination
  • Inspiration
  • Creativity as Therapy
  • Thought as the Ultimate Creative Medium
  • Creating Meaning, Purpose, and Ideals
  • Dreaming Too Much
  • 11. Creative Practices: Becoming a Creator
  • Practice 10: Taming the Imagination Creature
  • Practice 11: Living Backward and Forward in Time
  • Practice 12: Seducing the Muse
  • Practice 13: Creativity Is Imagination in Action
  • 12. Understanding Moods
  • Understanding Moods
  • Mood Animals and Making Change Naturally
  • 13. Emotional Intensity
  • The Inner Experience of Emotional Intensity
  • The Outward Expression of Emotional Intensity
  • Dabrowski's Theory of Emotional Development
  • Cartography: Becoming a Master Mapmaker
  • 14. Emotional Practices: Emotional
  • Growth and Power
  • Practice 14: Mapmaking at Level
  • Practice 15: Mapmaking at Level
  • Practice 16: Mapmaking at Level
  • 15. The Ghosts of Intensity Past, Present, and Future
  • The Ghost of Intensity Past: Seriousness
  • The Ghost of Intensity Present: Perfectionism
  • The Ghost of Intensity Future: Anxiety
  • How to Be the Leader of the Ghosts
  • 16. Living an Intense Life
  • Understand Your Nature
  • Find Support from Others
  • Take Action
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

About 10% of American children (and 5% of adults) have been diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD), and a multibillion-dollar industry has grown up around the diagnosis, with potentially dangerous stimulants, writes "ADD coach" Burge. In her sure-to-be controversial book debunking the disorder, she asserts that those branded with ADHD experience stimuli-physical, sensory, emotional-more intensely than others. There is no such thing as ADD, she asserts. Instead, the problem for those who are distracted, disorganized, fidgety, and impulsive is to learn how to turn their intensity into a strength. Burge bashes the forthcoming edition of the psychiatric bible, the DSM-V, with its broader ADHD criteria, as well as a drug industry profiting from the label. She then offers "practices"-many based on meditation techniques-to calm, soothe, and sharpen the mind. Hers is a bold stand, and Burge is partly backed by Frances, who was task force chairman for the current DSM-IV. Still, Burge's guidance is more suited for adults who understand their difficulties than struggling school kids. Still, her assertions should at least spur scrutiny of an "epidemic" that continues to stymie its sufferers and their families. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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