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

Mate, Gabor (Author)

ISBN 10: 0452279631 / ISBN 13: 9780452279636

Published by Plume, 2000

About this Item

reissue edition. 368 pages. 7.75x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Seller Inventory # 0452279631

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It
• Publisher: Plume
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0452279631
• ISBN 13: 9780452279636
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.32 kilograms

About this title

Synopsis

In this breakthrough guide to understanding, treating, and healing Attention Deficit Disorder, Dr. Gabor Maté, bestselling author of The Myth of Normal shares 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.

About the Author

Gabor Mate, M.D., is a physician with a family practice in Vancouver, where he lives. He has written a widely-read medical column for The Globe and Mail and currently writes on medical issues for The Vancouver Sun.