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Millones de personas son conscientes de que pueden tener problemas en el colegio, en el trabajo o en sus relaciones sociales si no se concentran, se sientan con tranquilidad y terminan lo que han empezado. Y, sobre todo, si no se organizan. Pero, en el caso de muchos de ellos, lo que aparentemente es una cuestion de autodisciplina, en realidad es un problema neurologico innato: el TDA, o trastorno por deficit de atencion. A traves de historias en las que relatan las experiencias de sus pacientes, tanto adultos como ninos, los doctores Hallowell y Ratey muestran las variadas formas en que el TDA se puede manifestar B -- desde el caracter hiperactivo provocado por un estimulo concreto hasta la falta de atencion motivada por la tendencia a fantasear en excesoB -- y la espectacular transformacion que puede derivarse de un diagnostico y un tratamiento precisos. Al mismo tiempo, explican en que casos y de que manera la medicacion puede resultar util. Ambos autores han padecido el TDA, y por eso sus consejos sobre tecnicas efectivas de modificacion del comportamiento para superar el sindrome estan ilustrados con sus experiencias personales. Tras reconocer que el impacto del TDA en las familias y en los conyuges de quienes lo sufren puede llegar a ser insoportable, los doctores Hallowell y Ratey tambien ofrecen soluciones concretas para las personas proximas a las pacientes, incluyendo profesores y terapeutas. Este libro, asi, proporciona un esclarecedor analisis de un problema que hasta hace muy poco no habia sido convenientemente identificado. Se trata de una obra dirigida a cualquier persona interesada en el funcionamiento de la mente humana.… (más)
I picked this book up years ago because of the title. Since then I have read about the controversy of the experts & self-diagnosis, but the stories in this book opened our eyes up to issues we were dealing with. We were able to understand that the struggles with ADD symptoms were common. It was a major breakthrough. ( )
This is the book that jumpstarted the change in thinking about AD/HD: its causes, symptoms and how to deal with the condition. This is the book that you're referred to if you think you or someone you know might be AD/HD -- the cornerstone of discovery, so to speak. Well written, well researched, and with enough individual stories to keep the conversation interesting. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
We gratefully dedicate this book to seven teachers of ours, seven psychiatrists who shared with each other a liveliness of mind, an independence of thought, a love of the work, and an appreciation of play.
They taught us to listen and to see.
Doris Menzer Benaron, Jules Bemporad, William Beuscher, Thomas Gutheil, Leston Havens, Allan Hobson, and Irvin Taube all gave of themselves much more than this small dedication can acknowledge. During their years of teaching at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston, they taught us to connect with the patient, person-to-person. They taught us to look for the heart of the patient, to look for the sorrow and for the joy. We thank them from our own hearts.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
PREFACE A Personal Perspective I have attention deficit disorder (ADD).
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
That’s the problem with being an adult: people have already made up their minds about us; we’ve even made up our minds about ourselves.
A streak of Puritanism runs deep within American society. Permissive and pioneering as we may be on the one hand, we are strict and conservative on the other. As much as we may be a country of mavericks and entrepreneurs, we are also a country of finger waggers and name-callers. As much as we may be a country of compassion for the underdog, we are also a country that believes in self-reliance.
It is the lack of balance, the dysregulation of the body’s neurobiological system, that impairs one’s ability to pay selective attention to one’s surroundings. The world becomes a land without street signs, the individual a car in bad need of a tune-up. The vastness of the attentional system partially accounts for the variation of ADD “types.” Where one individual needs an oil change, the next needs spark plugs replaced. Where one individual is withdrawn and overwhelmed by stimuli, the next is hyperactive and can’t get enough stimuli. Where one is frequently anxious, the other is depressed. To compensate, each develops his or her own coping strategies that developmentally add to, or subtract from, the brain’s various subsystems. So Mr. A becomes a stand-up comedian, and manic. Ms. B becomes an architectural wizard with obsessive-compulsive traits. Their offspring become a sculptor and a stunt pilot. None of them can balance their checkbook. And all of them wish they had more time in the day.
I also see how essential a comprehensive treatment plan is, a plan that incorporates education, understanding, empathy, structure, coaching, a plan for success and physical exercise as well as medication. I see how important the human connection is every step of the way: connection with parent or spouse; with teacher or supervisor; with friend or colleague; with doctor, with therapist, with coach, with the world “out there.” In fact, I see the human connection as the single most powerful therapeutic force in the treatment of ADHD.
What Mrs. Eldredge has just said gives a pretty good short description of ADD: You don’t mean to do the things you do do, and you don’t do the things you mean to do.
In many ways the most dangerous aspect of undiagnosed and untreated ADD is the assault to self-esteem that usually occurs. Whatever talents these people may have, they often never get to use them because they give up, feeling lost and stupid.
The model for ADD that seems to fit best from our point of view, however, comes from the school of thought that thinks more in terms of inhibition and disinhibition than motivation or arousal. Chelune, Gualtieri, Lou, and a number of other researchers and clinicians have framed ADD as an inability to stop receiving messages rather than as an inability to receive the right messages. These people always feel a press for the next thing and the next thing and the next thing. The ADD individual is captive to the events of the external world. Although the difference may seem semantic, it is significant in the way we describe ADD. It stresses that the positive components of the syndrome will assist the problematic ones. Instead of framing the syndrome as an inability to pay attention to cues, this definition focuses on the ability of someone with ADD to pay attention to many more cues than the average person. Instead of describing ADD as an inability to concentrate, this model presents it as the ability to concentrate on everything. The world always is alive and ripe with sources of interest. This analysis is supported by the scientific findings and also has the benefit of removing the stigma of laziness and the burden of guilt with which ADD people have struggled most of their lives. It allows them to start considering their strengths, rather than dwelling on weaknesses.
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Although it is doubtful we will find the magic bullet that can rid an individual of ADD, one day our methods of treatment might be sophisticated enough so that the frustration and uncertainties of living with the syndrome will be eased, and those with ADD can draw confidently on their thoughts.
Millones de personas son conscientes de que pueden tener problemas en el colegio, en el trabajo o en sus relaciones sociales si no se concentran, se sientan con tranquilidad y terminan lo que han empezado. Y, sobre todo, si no se organizan. Pero, en el caso de muchos de ellos, lo que aparentemente es una cuestion de autodisciplina, en realidad es un problema neurologico innato: el TDA, o trastorno por deficit de atencion. A traves de historias en las que relatan las experiencias de sus pacientes, tanto adultos como ninos, los doctores Hallowell y Ratey muestran las variadas formas en que el TDA se puede manifestar B -- desde el caracter hiperactivo provocado por un estimulo concreto hasta la falta de atencion motivada por la tendencia a fantasear en excesoB -- y la espectacular transformacion que puede derivarse de un diagnostico y un tratamiento precisos. Al mismo tiempo, explican en que casos y de que manera la medicacion puede resultar util. Ambos autores han padecido el TDA, y por eso sus consejos sobre tecnicas efectivas de modificacion del comportamiento para superar el sindrome estan ilustrados con sus experiencias personales. Tras reconocer que el impacto del TDA en las familias y en los conyuges de quienes lo sufren puede llegar a ser insoportable, los doctores Hallowell y Ratey tambien ofrecen soluciones concretas para las personas proximas a las pacientes, incluyendo profesores y terapeutas. Este libro, asi, proporciona un esclarecedor analisis de un problema que hasta hace muy poco no habia sido convenientemente identificado. Se trata de una obra dirigida a cualquier persona interesada en el funcionamiento de la mente humana.
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