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About the Author |
| Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., is a child and adult psychiatrist, the director of the Hallowell Center for Cognitive and Emotional Health in Concord, Massachusetts, and a senior lecturer at Harvard Medical School. He is the coauthor of the national bestseller on attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, Driven to Distraction , and the author of a number of other important works, including The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness ,Connect ,Answers to Distraction , and When You Worry About the Child You Love , which was named best book of the year on child development by Child magazine. A graduate of Harvard and Tulane University School of Medicine, he lives in Arlington, Massachusetts, with his wife and three children.
John J. Ratey, M.D . is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Executive Director of Research at Medfield State Hospital in Medfield, MA. He is the co-author of Driven to Distraction and Answers to Distraction . He lives in Wellesley, MA.
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Summary
In Driven to Distraction, Drs. Hallowell and Ratey revealed why millions of adults and children are chronic underachievers, caught up in persistent problems in school, at work, and at home. The cause is not lack of self-discipline, but, rather, an inborn neurological condition, Attention Deficit Disorder, or ADD.
Answers To Distraction provides practical solutions to the dilemmas of ADD. This "user's guide" to ADD is presented in question-and-answer format ideal for even the most distractible reader. Each chapter covers a specific aspect of ADD, such as ADD in women, ADD and aggression, ADD and addiction, or ADD and work. The authors provide advice for teachers on recognizing ADD and helping students to cope, plus extraordinary insights into the relationship difficulties caused by ADD.
Table of Contents
Preface
- You Mean There’s Actually a Name for It?
- To Be Here and There and Everywhere
- Making or Breaking the Spirit of the Child
- The Pleasures (and Pains) of Sudden Wonder
- Work Smarter, Not Just Harder
- Perchance to Dream
- Making up Your Mind
- You are My Sunshine
- Taming the Big Struggle
- The Unfinished Symphony
- Fact or Fad?
- The Brain’s Behind It
- Whence It Came
- What’s in a Pill?
- A Wretched Excess
- The Gemlike Flame
- The Doctors’ Dilemmas
Appendixes
- Fifty Tips on the Management of Adult ADD
- Twenty- Five Tips on the Management of ADD in Families
- Twenty- Five Tips on the Management of ADD in Couples
- Where To Go for Help
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