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Driven to Distraction Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood

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ISBN-10: 0684801280

ISBN-13: 9780684801285

Edition: 1994 (Reprint)

Authors: Edward M. Hallowell, John J. Ratey

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List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Touchstone
Publication date: 3/2/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

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…    

Preface: A Personal Perspective
What Is Attention Deficit Disorder?
"I Sang in My Chains Like the Sea": The Child with ADD
"Sequence Ravelled Out of Sound": Adult ADD
Living and Loving with ADD: ADD in Couples
The Big Struggle: ADD and the Family
Parts of the Elephant: Subtypes of ADD
How Do I Know if I Have It? The Steps Toward Diagnosis
What Can You Do About It? The Treatment of ADD
A Local Habitation and a Name: The Biology of ADD
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Where to Find Help
Index