Scattered Minds

(U.S. Title: Scattered)

Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder – published in the U.S. as Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates And What You Can Do  About It – is written from the inside by a doctor who himself has Attention Deficit Disorder. It offers a completely new perspective on ADD and a new approach to helping children and adults living with the problems Attention Deficit Disorder presents.

• Demonstrates that ADD is not an inherited illness, but a reversible impairment, a 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 “tuning out” and distractibility are the psychological products of life experience, from in utero onwards
• Allows parents to understand what makes their ADD children tick, and adults with ADD to gain insights into their emotions and behaviors
• Expresses optimism about neurological development even in adulthood
• Presents a program of how to promote this development in children and adults alike

Read from Scattered Minds (U.S.: Scattered)

The following chapters are available to read online:

• Chapter One — So Much Soup and Garbage Can
• Chapter Two — Many Roads Not Travelled
• Chapter Nineteen — Just Looking for Attention
• Chapter Twenty — The Defiant Ones: Oppositionality
• Chapter Twenty-Five — Justifying One’s Existence: Self-Esteem and the ADD Adult