Author: Mate, Gabor
Popular medicine & health
Published on 3 January 2019 by Ebury Publishing (Vermilion) in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 368 pages
127 x 195 x 29 | 254g
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
