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Table Of Contents

Acknowledgments
Author’s Note
Introduction

PART ONE: The Nature of Attention Deficit Disorder

1 So Much Soup and Garbage Can
2 Many Roads Not Traveled
3 We Could All Go Crazy
4 A Conflictual Marriage: ADD and the Family (I)
5 Forgetting to Remember the Future

PART TWO: How the Brain Develops and How the Circuits and Chemistry of ADD Arise

6 Different Worlds: Heredity and the Environments of Childhood
7 Emotional Allergies: ADD and Sensitivity
8 A Surrealistic Choreography
9 Attunement and Attachment
10 The Footprints of Infancy

PART THREE: The Roots of ADD in Family and Society

11 An Utter Stranger: ADD and the Family (II)
12 Stories within Stories: ADD and the Family (III)
13 This Most Frenetic of Cultures: The Social Roots of ADD

PART FOUR: The Meaning of ADD Traits

14 Severed Thoughts and Flibbertigibbets: Distractibility and Tuning Out
15 The Pendulum Swings: Hyperactivity, Lethargy and Shame

PART FIVE: The ADD Child and Healing

16 It Ain’t over Till It’s over: Unconditional Positive Regard
17 Wooing the Child
18 Like Fish in the Sea
19 Just Looking for Attention
20 The Defiant Ones: Oppositionality
21 Defusing Counterwill
22 My Marshmallow Caught Fire: Motivation and Autonomy
23 Trusting the Child, Trusting Oneself: ADD in the Classroom
24 Always on My Case: Teenagers

PART SIX: The ADD Adult

25 Justifying One’s Existence: Self-Esteem
26 Memories Are Made of This
27 Remembering What Didn’t Happen: The ADD Relationship
28 Moses Saved by the Angel: Self-Parenting (I)
29 The Physical and Spiritual Environment: Self-Parenting (II)
30 In Place of Tears and Sorrow: Addictions and the ADD Brain

PART SEVEN: Conclusion

31 I Never Saw the Trees: What Medications Can and Cannot Do
32 What It Means to Attend

Notes
Bibliography
Index