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Tables of Contents for Scattered
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xiii
Author's Note
xv
Introduction
xvii
PART ONE The Nature of Attention Deficit Disorder
So Much Soup and Garbage Can
3
8
Many Roads Not Traveled
11
10
We Could All Go Crazy
21
6
A Conflictual Marriage: ADD and the Family (I)
27
8
Forgetting to Remember the Future
35
12
PART TWO How the Brain Develops and How the Circuits and Chemistry of Add Arise
Different Worlds: Heredity and the Environments of Childhood
47
10
Emotional Allergies: Add and Sensitivity
57
6
A Surrealistic Choreography
63
6
Attunement and Attachment
69
8
The Footprints of Infancy
77
10
PART THREE The Roots of Add in Family and Society
An Utter Stranger: Add and the Family (II)
87
8
Stories within Stories: Add and the Family (III)
95
12
This Most Frenetic of Cultures: The Social Roots of Add
107
10
PART FOUR The Meaning of Add Traits
Severed Thoughts and Flibbertigibbets: Distractibility and Tuning Out
117
12
The Pendulum Swings: Hyperactivity, Lethargy and Shame
129
12
PART FIVE The Add Child and Healing
It Ain't Over Till It's Over: Unconditional Positive Regard
141
10
Wooing the Child
151
8
Like Fish in the Sea
159
12
Just Looking for Attention
171
12
The Defiant Ones: Oppositionality
183
10
Defusing Counterwill
193
8
My Marshmallow Caught Fire: Motivation and Autonomy
201
10
Trusting the Child, Trusting Oneself: Add in the Classroom
211
10
Always on My Case: Teenagers
221
14
PART SIX The Add Adult
Justifying One's Existence: Self-Esteem
235
12
Memories Are Made of This
247
10
Remembering What Didn't Happen: The Add Relationship
257
14
Moses Saved by the Angel: Self-Parenting (I)
271
12
The Physical and Spiritual Environment: Self-Parenting (II)
283
14
In Place of Tears and Sorrow: Addictions and the Add Brain
297
10
PART SEVEN Conclusion
I Never Saw the Trees: What Medications Can and Cannot Do
307
12
What It Means to Attend
319
6
Notes
325
10
Bibliography
335
6
Index
341