Driven To Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood

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Simon and Schuster, Mar 2, 1995 - Family & Relationships - 319 pages
Focusing on Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) as a life-long neurological problem that affects adults as well as children, this definitive book describes the various forms ADD takes, how professionals distinguish ADD patterns from "unacceptable" behavior, and how medication and behavior modification techniques can balance its negative and positive aspects.

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Contents

What Is Attention Deficit Disorder?
3
Sequence Ravelled Out of Sound
70
Living and Loving with ADD
107
The Big Struggle
126
Parts of the Elephant
151
How Do I Know if I Have It?
195
What Can You Do About It?
215
A Local Habitation and a Name
269
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
287
INDEX
305
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Edward M. Hallowell, a child and adult psychiatrist as well as an author and lecturer, is a graduate of Harvard College, Tulane Medical School, and a Harvard Residency Program in Adult and Child Psychiatry. In addition to his private psychiatry practice in Cambridge, Mass., and his teaching career at Harvard Medical School, Hallowell is the founder and director of The Hallowell Center for Cognitive and Emotional Health. The Center specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of cognitive and emotional problems in both children and adults. As an author, Hallowell has written two best-selling books on Attention Deficit Disorder: Driven to Distraction and Answers to Distraction. He has also written the comprehensive books When You Worry About The Child You Love and Worry: Controlling It and Using It Wisely. Hallowell, who is married and has three children, lives in Massachusetts

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