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Scattered Minds : The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder by Gabor Maté, MD is a self-help book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Scattered Minds : The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder about?
Scattered Minds explodes the myth of attention deficit disorderas 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 delayExplains that in ADD, circuits in the brain whose job is emotional self-regulation and attention control fail to develop in infancy – and whyShows how ‘distractibility’ is the psychological product of life experienceAllows parents to understand what makes their ADD children tick, and adults with ADD to gain insights into their emotions and behavioursExpresses optimism about neurological development even in adulthoodPresents a programme of how to promote this development in both children and adults"Gabor Maté’s connections―between the intensely personal and the global, the sp
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Common subject areas: self-improvement, productivity, wellness.
- Author
- Gabor Maté, MD
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780676972597
- Category
- self-help
- Subjects
- Memoir, Management, Biography
- Rating
- 4.26 / 5 (142 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD-ADHD) (2023)
- Scattered Minds : the Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder (2019)
- Scattered : how Attention Deficit Disorder [ADD] originates and what you can do about it (2000)
- Scattered : how Attention Deficit Disorder [ADD] originates and what you can do about it (1999)
- Scattered Minds : The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder (2023)
- Scattered Minds : The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder (2011)
- Scattered : How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It (2009)
- Scattered : How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It (2000)
- Scattered : How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It (2014)
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