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Tables of Contents for Thom Hartmann's Complete Guide to Adhd
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xi
Preface
xiii
What is Add?
1
74
My Journey
6
2
Characteristics of ADD
8
13
What the Experts Say
14
1
The Hallowell-Ratey Criteria
14
5
Conditions that May Mimic ADD, and Vice Versa
19
2
Wrong or Different?
21
31
``Normal'' People and the Origins of Agriculture
25
4
A Different Story
29
3
Our Own Stories
32
4
What Maslow Overlooked
36
2
Need for Aliveness
38
1
Thalamic Gain
39
2
Closed and Open Faucets
41
3
Final Basic Human Need
44
2
A New Understanding
46
2
Is it Learned or Built-in?
48
2
Why Maslow Overlooked this Need
50
2
Self-fulfilling Prophecies
52
3
Reframing: From Hopeless to Hope
55
4
``Positive Experience Resource''
57
2
The Urge to Categorize
59
2
Where Have All the Hunters Gone?
61
3
Hunters and Farmers in Modern Society
64
1
Is ADD a ``Disorder''?
65
5
Better Definitions
66
2
Bill's Brain Is Odd
68
2
Where the Wounding Occurs
70
1
Healing ADD
71
4
It's Not Just ADD: ADD at Home and in Relationships
75
74
How We Experience the World Differently
77
3
The Hartmann Modality Preference Measurement Index
80
3
We All Experience Love Differently
83
6
Pop Psychology and the Media Encourage Victimness and Illness
89
7
Life Is What We Think It Is
96
12
Redefining Reality
97
2
Identifying and Changing Limiting Beliefs
99
1
Choosing Beliefs
100
4
Modeling Other People's Beliefs
104
2
Presupposing Change in Beliefs and Behaviors
106
2
Change Is Possible
108
18
The Brain Changes as We Learn
108
1
There Are Specific Stages of Brain Changes --- Before Birth and at Adolescence
109
2
The Brain Organizes Itself According to the Type and Nature of Stimulation
111
1
It's Not So Simple as ``Just Making the Change''
112
4
What Does This Mean for Today's Children?
116
5
EEG Neurofeedback
121
5
We Lack Exercise
126
2
Advertising Makes ADD Worse by Training Us to Have a Short Attention Span
128
7
The Pain-Pleasure Continuum
130
3
Advertising and TV
133
2
Personal Strategies for Success
135
8
Nutrition and Health --- Plan Your Diet
135
2
Should Hunters Take Drugs?
137
4
Practice ``Original Awareness'' Technique
141
2
The Working Parent --- ADD at Work and at Home
143
2
Our Lost Rituals
145
4
A Parent's Guide to Reinventing Our Schools
149
64
Our Schools Are Failing
151
4
Parents
152
1
Teachers
153
1
Administrators
154
1
Failing Schools and Failing Children
155
3
Education or Socialization?
158
15
The Prussian Experiment
163
4
Good German Schools Come to America
167
3
Liberating Both Teachers and Pupils
170
3
When People Don't Fit In
173
1
ADD in the Schools
174
4
``They will steal it ...''
178
14
Teachers as Pyrotechnicians
180
2
Waking Kids Up
182
1
ADD and Trout
183
2
Low-stimulation Classrooms
185
2
High-stimulation Classrooms
187
1
Learning Flows Like a Wave
187
2
William Farish: The World's Most Famous Lazy Teacher
189
3
Self-esteem as a Predictor of Future Success
192
4
The Villain
196
2
Opportunities for Reform
198
10
Linear Versus Critical Thinking Skills
198
3
Teaching at the Right Times
201
1
Brain Stages
201
1
Brain Development and Learning
202
2
Teaching Styles and Learning Styles
204
1
Gardner's Multiple Intelligences
205
1
NLP and the Sensory Modalities
206
1
Teacher/Student Mismatches
207
1
Empowering Teachers, Parents, and Students
208
2
Power and Powerlessness
210
1
The Constitutional Crisis
210
3
Hunter in a Business World
213
78
The Challenge of an ADD Hunter in the Workplace
215
22
Hunters in Their Element
217
3
Creativity and ADD: A Brilliant and Flexible Mind
220
6
High Stimulation Jobs
226
5
Finding the Right Job and Being a Hunter within Someone Else's Company
231
1
Sales Positions for ADD Hunters
232
2
How Can You Be A Good Manager When You're ADD?
234
3
How ADD Affects Women and Men Differently in the Workplace
237
1
Some Points to Consider
238
8
Should You Come Out About Your ADD?
239
1
Is It Really ADD?
240
2
Dealing with ADD Co-workers
242
1
How to Have Successful Meetings
243
3
ADD and Entrepreneurship --- Building Your Own Business
246
6
Build A Business, Not A Job
246
2
Eight Steps to Organizing a Business if You're an ADD Hunter
248
3
The Coming Moment of Freedome
251
1
Choosing To Start a Business --- Your Best Hunt
252
15
Create a Business You Can Use
254
1
Record Your Ideas and Visions
255
1
Finding Your Purpose
255
1
What Has Always Been Fun for You?
256
3
Setting Business Goals ... and Reaching Them
259
1
Decide on the Appropriate Company Structure
260
2
Franchises
262
1
Husband-Wife Teams in Business
262
5
Hunting For Success --- Building a Life with, through, and in Spite of Your ADD
267
5
The Greatest Enemy of Success: Procrastination
267
1
Why Do We Procrastinate?
268
2
Overcoming Procrastination
270
1
Procrastination Can Be Good, When Done Right
271
1
Preparing for the Hunt --- Ways to Push Through ADD
272
4
Overcoming Negative Self-talk
273
1
Stand Up Straight
274
1
You Can't Think about Two Things at the Same Time
274
2
Tracking the Prey --- Heading for Success
276
15
Write Down Your Goal
277
1
Organizing Your Hunt
277
2
Develop a Master Mind Group
279
1
Always Hire the Best
280
1
Don't Meddle, But Learn as Much as You Can
281
1
Hire a Good Farmer as a Manager
282
1
Force Yourself to Train Properly
283
1
How to Pace Yourself
283
1
Break Big Jobs into Little Pieces
284
1
Learn to Say No
284
1
Never Criticize, Complain or Condemn
285
1
Learning the Difference between Intuition and Fear
286
1
Give Some of Yourself to Others
287
1
Overcoming Forgetfulness --- Learn Original Awareness
287
1
Partner with Your Spouse and Family
288
3
Building A Well-Rounded Life
291
10
What's Next
293
6
Live in the Now
294
1
Hunting for Success in Your Personal Life
295
1
Read, Listen, and Keep Inspired
295
1
Feeling Are Your Connection to Intuitive Knowledge
296
1
Learn to Forgive
296
1
Set Spiritual Goals and Work Toward Them Daily
297
1
Accept Your Hunterness
298
1
Enjoying the Fruits of the Hunt
299
2
Focus Your Energy
299
1
You Can Do It!
300
1
Some Afterthoughts: Whose Order is Being Disordered by ADHD?
301
7
Afterword
308
5
Index
313