Driven to distraction : recognizing and coping with attention deficit disorder from childhood through adulthood / Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hallowell, Edward M.

Contributor:

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center (University of Pennsylvania)

Ratey, John J., 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults--Popular works.

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults.

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder--Popular works.

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity.

Attention-deficit disorder in adults--Popular works.

Medical Subjects:

Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity.

Genre:

Popular works.

Nonfiction.

Popular works

Physical Description:

xii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

1st Touchstone ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Summary:

Discusses the causes, symptoms, and treatment of attention-deficit disorder (ADD).

Contents:

Preface : A personal perspective

1. What is attention deficit disorder?

2. "I sang in my chains like the sea" : the child with ADD

3. "Sequence ravelled out of sound" : adult ADD

4. Living and loving with ADD : ADD in couples

5. The big struggle : ADD and the family

6. Parts of the elephant : subtypes of ADD

7. How do I know if I have it? : the steps toward diagnosis

8. What can you do about it? : the treatment of ADD

9. A local habitation and a name : the biology of ADD

Acknowledgments

Appendix : Where to find help

Index.

Notes:

"A Touchstone book."

Previously published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1994.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-298) and index.

Local Notes:

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.

ISBN:

0684801280

9780684801285

OCLC:

31434268

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