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Driven to distraction recognizing and coping with attention deficit disorder from childhood through adulthood

Overview: Groundbreaking and comprehensive, Driven to Distraction has been a lifeline to the approximately eighteen million Americans who are thought to have ADHD. Now the bestselling book is revised and updated with current medical information for a new generation searching for answers. Through viv...

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Main Author: Hallowell, Edward M.
Other Authors: Ratey, John J., 1948-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Anchor Books, 2011.
Edition:1st Anchor books ed., rev. and updated.
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Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder > Popular works.
Attention-deficit disorder in adults > Popular works.
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Summary:Overview: Groundbreaking and comprehensive, Driven to Distraction has been a lifeline to the approximately eighteen million Americans who are thought to have ADHD. Now the bestselling book is revised and updated with current medical information for a new generation searching for answers. Through vivid stories and case histories of patients-both adults and children-Hallowell and Ratey explore the varied forms ADHD takes, from hyperactivity to daydreaming. They dispel common myths, offer helpful coping tools, and give a thorough accounting of all treatment options as well as tips for dealing with a diagnosed child, partner, or family member. But most importantly, they focus on the positives that can come with this "disorder"--Including high energy, intuitiveness, creativity, and enthusiasm
Item Description:"Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form by Pantheon Books ... in 1994, and subsequently published in paperback by Touchstone ... in 1995"--Title page verso
Physical Description:xviii, 382 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-366) and index.
ISBN:9780307743152
0307743152
Author Notes: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

(Bowker Author Biography)

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