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"This delightful, helpful book is a welcome addition to the literature on ADD. I would enthusiastically recommend Scattered to anyone touched by ADD - adults, parents, and professionals."

- John J. Ratey, M.D., co-author of Driven to Distraction

Scattered:

• 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

Now comes Gabor Maté , an insightful, no-nonsense, and thoroughly compassionate physician who provides an overview of all these perspectives and comes to the marvelously humane conclusion that ADD/ADHD is neither nature (genetics) nor nurture (parenting/environment) but, rather, the result of the collision of a predisposing nature with an ADD-hostile life situation, family, school, or job. How refreshing!

-Thom Hartman, author of ADD: A Different Perception and many other books about ADD