Think Fast: The ADD Experience [Paperback]

Thom Hartmann (Author), Janie Bowman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 10, 1996

Everyone has had an ADD experience at one time or another. We've all forgotten appointments, gotten distracted, or misplaced the car keys. This book gathers expert information on and everyday experiences with ADD and presents it in a format that can be read cover to cover or scanned for specific topics relevant to the reader.

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From the Publisher

Thom Hartmann has written six books about ADD. His book, ADD: A Different Perception sold more than 100,000 copies. His remarkable evolutionary theory about ADD was profiled in Time magazine.

About the Author

Thom Hartmann is the author of six books on ADD and former executive director of a residential treatment facility for abused and emotionally disturbed children. He authored more than 200 published articles and has spoken at conferences around the world.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Underwood Books (April 10, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1887424083
• ISBN-13: 978-1887424080
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #789,451 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Thom Hartmann, who started in radio in 1968, is also an internationally known speaker on culture and communications, an author, and an innovator in the fields of psychiatry, ecology, and economics. The co-founder (with his wife, Louise) of The New England Salem Children's Village (1978) and The Hunter School (1997), he has led national innovations in the areas of residential treatment for abused children and private/public education for learning-disabled children. Hartmann is the four-time Project Censored Award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of nineteen books currently in print in over a dozen languages on five continents. He is the former executive director of a residential treatment program for emotionally disturbed and abused children, and has helped set up hospitals, famine relief programs, schools, and refugee centers in India, Uganda, Australia, Colombia, Russia, and the United States through the German-based Salem International program. Formerly rostered with the State of Vermont as a psychotherapist, founder of The Michigan Healing Arts Center, and licensed as an NLP Trainer by Richard Bandler (who wrote the foreword to one of Thom's books), he was the originator of the revolutionary "Hunter/Farmer Hypothesis" to understand the psychiatric condition known as Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD). A guest faculty member at Goddard College in Vermont, he also synthesized the "Younger/Older Culture model" for describing the underpinnings - and possible solutions - to the world's ecological and socio-political crises, suggesting that many of our problems are grounded in cultural "stories" which go back thousands of years. His most recent books are "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class," "The Edison Gene," "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight," "Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights," "We The People: A Call to Take Back America," and "What Would Jefferson Do?"

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24 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great anthology, October 30, 2000

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This review is from: Think Fast: The ADD Experience (Paperback)

This is the book inducted into the Smithsonian. It's a collection of short essays on ADD/ADHD by Thom Hartmann, Russell Barkley, Edward Hallowell, John Ratey, Peter Wright, George Lynn, Dave deBronkart, Janie Bowman and others, edited by Thom, Janie, and Susan. It's an excellent overview of the whole spectrum of thought of ADD/ADHD.