Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder
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Scattered Minds explodes the myth of attention deficit disorder as genetically based – and offers real hope and advice for children and adults who live with the condition.
Gabor Maté is a revered physician who specializes in neurology, psychiatry and psychology – and himself has ADD. With wisdom gained through years of medical practice and research, Scattered Minds is a must-read for parents – and for anyone interested how experiences in infancy shape the biology and psychology of the human brain.
Scattered Minds:
– Demonstrates that ADD is not an inherited illness, but a reversible impairment and developmental delay
– Explains that in ADD, circuits in the brain whose job is emotional self-regulation and attention control fail to develop in infancy – and why
– Shows how ‘distractibility’ is the psychological product of life experience
– Allows parents to understand what makes their ADD children tick, and adults with ADD to gain insights into their emotions and behaviours
– Expresses optimism about neurological development even in adulthood
– Presents a programme of how to promote this development in both children and adults
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Additional information
| Publisher | Vermilion, 2nd edition (3 Jan. 2019) |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 368 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1785042211 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1785042218 |
| Dimensions | 12.7 x 2.6 x 19.7 cm |
by Isabelle Prentice
A beautiful account of how deficits in our relationships with our care givers in our formative years can cause problems in our capacity for attention. A book on how healing can begin … work on the relationships !
by Sheelagh H.
I think this book is probably more suited to a person who actually suffers from the conditions written about in it. I didn’t finish it but will hopefully get to during the next few weeks. Instead of a ‘hard to put dow’ book, I find it a ‘hard to pick up’ book but that is probably it is not meant to be about leisurely reading.
by Ian Holder
Gabor Mate’s work is renowned in the field of ADD and ADHD and while written and published in 1999 the content is as useful and current today as it was then.
I’ve read up to the end of Part Three so far page 112 and feel hugely grateful for the book being published. On the front cover of the book is printed a quote my Naomi Klein “A healer to be cherished” and I totally agree. You can’t get better than this.
by PeeJay
This is book is a must read for any parent truly interested in bringing up their children so that they are emotionally healthy and naturally confident. Reading this helped me to understand my own unhelpful behaviours and I so wish this book had been published when I was parenting my children when they were so young. The late poet, Philip Larkin, once said, “Our parents f*** us up, they do”, this book explains why indirectly.
Written with such eloquence and carefully explained throughout it is a fascinating and highly educational read.
A friend explained he has ADD, and with what I know about him, this book completely explains why. And his description of himself made me realise that perhaps I have it too. And I now understand why, it makes such sense now.
That the author has such deep knowledge and insights is remarkable, Gabor Mate writes with clarity and an underlying passion for the subject of ADD, which he has himself.
Highly enjoyable, I am so grateful that we have people like Gabor Mate in our world to help us.
by luckyno8
This author is acclaimed for his knowledge and understanding of mental health issues. The book is detailed and thorough – an excellent read for even a layperson.
by Lynn
Gabor Mate writes from personal experience but also as a doctor. He is honest and direct. I am left with a deeper understanding of myself, my experiences so far and what I can do to come to terms with things .
by Mr. J. J. Whittles
As a recent ADHD diagnosis and someone who hopes to be a father in a few years, this is a book that I can honestly say will compete against no other as the most solid statement of the origins and understanding of ADHD and its presence made in our work, life and family. A thorough grounding into what underpins the ADHD experience from a neuroscientific and childhood development perspective serves a strong bedrock of which we can begin to assess our own lives and struggles that formulate our place and purpose on this earth. As Mate expresses his own childhood trauma as a newborn Hungarian Jew on the periphery of the Holocaust, so too does he invite us all to engage with his understanding that all formative experiences come with their own pain and hurt that require healing and the duty of all parents to bestow a foundation of unconditional love in its service.
The ADHD adult is us and so it is passed to our children, both genetically and in parenting and as such we must be present but also loving in our expressions when faced with the stark realities of living against our own scattered minds.
by Mr. D. Green
Good price- easy to read- has a lot of relevant information