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A newly revised and updated edition of the classic guide to reframing our view of ADHD and embracing its benefits
List of contents
FOREWORD Re-affirming the Value of All Human Beings by Michael Popkin
PREFACE
From Minimal Brain Damage to Hyperactivity to ADHD
INTRODUCTIONHunters and Farmers Twenty Years Later
PART ONE UNDERSTANDING HUNTERS AND FARMERS
ONE ADHD as a State of Mind
TWO How to Recognize Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
THREE Hunters in Our Schools and Offices: The Origin of ADHD
FOUR “Normal” People: The Origins of Agriculture
FIVE Baseline States of Consciousness
SIX Could Someone with ADHD Have Survivedin a Primitive Hunting Society?
SEVEN Hunters and Farmers Vindicated by Science
EIGHT What Maslow Overlooked: The Need to Feel Alive
NINECan Parents’ Smoking Cause Childhood Behavior Problems?
PART TWO LIVING AND THRIVING IN THE FARMER’S WORLD
TEN How to Turn a “Disorder” Back into a Skill: A Survival Guide for ADHD Adults
ELEVEN
The Hunter’s Struggle: Impulse and Its Control
TWELVE How to Work with a Hunter: Practical Advice for Managers, Parents, and Teachers
THIRTEENStudying and Paying Attention
FOURTEEN Creativity and ADHD: A Brilliant and Flexible Mind
FIFTEEN ADHD and Sleep
SIXTEEN
Hunters on Drugs
SEVENTEEN Halfway to the Stars:How Unrealized ADHD Can Limit an Apparently Successful Life
EIGHTEEN A Disorganized Collection of “Hunter in a Farmer’s World” Anecdotes
NINETEEN
The Edison Trait: Hunters Who Have Changed the World
EPILOGUE Older and Younger Cultures: Further Thoughts on Cultural Anthropology and Our Future Acknowledgments
AFTERWORDA Legacy of Hope
by Ellen B. Littman About the Author
by Dave deBronkart Also by Thom Hartmann
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Thom Hartmann is the host of the nationally and internationally syndicated talkshow
The Thom Hartmann Program and the TV show
The Big Picture on the Free Speech TV network. He is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of 24 books, including
Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception, ADHD and the
Edison Gene, and
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, which inspired Leonardo DiCaprio’s film
The 11th Hour. A former psychotherapist and founder of the Hunter School, a residential and day school for children with ADHD, he lives in Washington, D.C.
Summary
A newly revised and updated edition of the classic guide to reframing our view of ADHD and embracing its benefits
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“ADHDers aren’t abnormal; they are uniquely gifted individuals in their own right. Thom Hartmann describes these ideas in a book that belongs in the hands of every educator, counselor, doctor, and parent.”
