Name: Scattered
Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Gabor Maté

Argues that A.D.D. is a response to environmental conditions that fail to provide emotional or physical security.

How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and what You Can Do about it

Scattered

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, shared the latest information on: · The external factors that trigger ADD · How to create an environment that promotes health and healing · Ritalin and other drugs · ADD adults …and much more Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) has quickly become a controversial topic in recent years. Whereas other books on the subject describe the condition as inherited, Dr. Maté believes that our social and emotional environments play a key role in both the cause of and cure for this condition. In Scattered, he describes the painful realities of ADD and its effect on children as well as on career and social paths in adults. While acknowledging that genetics may indeed play a part in predisposing a person toward ADD, Dr. Maté moves beyond that to focus on the things we can control: changes in environment, family dynamics, and parenting choices. He draws heavily on his own experience with the disorder, as both an ADD sufferer and the parent of three diagnosed children. Providing a thorough overview of ADD and its treatments, Scattered is essential and life-changing reading for the millions of ADD sufferers in North America today.

How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It

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Cindy Lieberman

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Very interesting theory on the supposed origins of ADHD and early parental attachment. However, it begs the question of who wouldn’t be able to find some parental stress during the first two years of one’s life? Seems like a confidence trick or something a mentalist could pull off…

Scattered How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and what You Can Do about it

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