Scattered Minds · The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder by Maté, Gabor -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Contents Acknowledgments Author’s Note Introduction Part One: 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 Two: 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 Three: The Roots of ADD in Family and Society

Part Four: The Meaning of ADD Traits

Part Five: 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 Six: The ADD Adult

Part Seven: Conclusion

31. I Never Saw the Trees: What Medications Can and Cannot Do 32. What It Means to Attend

Notes Bibliography