Brainstorms: Understanding and Treating Emotional Storms of ADHD from Childhood through Adulthood (Hardcover)

by H. Joseph Horacek (Author), Jr. David Earl Edwards (Author)

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"...will serve as an invaluable resource for parents, teachers, educators, and psychotherapists." -- (Anthony LaBruzza, 1998)

"Illuminating, comprehensive, and delightfully written... offers a fresh perspective on ADHD and related disorders." -- (Eduardo M. Bustamante, 1998) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Description
Brainstorms - brief moments of highly charged emotional states - are known to all. Everyone has regretted outbursts of misdirected rage, feared moments of panic, welcomed fleeting moments of excited and inspired creativity. When such storms of emotion occur too frequently, too intensely, and become impairing, they can be symptoms of an underlying neuropsychiatric disorder. We all know people who are unusually quick to feel. They are quick to exuberance, possessing a "rampant enthusiasm" that is rapidly sent. They are often great "out of the gate", rushing headlong into their latest "brainstorm", but are unable to sustain their efforts and their great ideas and plans are seldom actualized. They may be "thin-skinned", overly sensitive to criticism and rejection, with a "firecracker temperament" that is quick to heat up, and quick to cool down. Their tolerant friends and family might affectionately refer to them as "the mad scientists" or "the temperamental artists". This book is about brainstorms. It is about how to understand them, cope with them, and ultimately, use them productively. In particular, it is about the extremes of stormy temperament that may be an underpinning of many problems: anxiety, panic and phobic disorders, as well as eating, depressive and obsessive-compulsive disorders among others, and by far the most common disorder associated with these erratic episodes of hyper-arousal and hyper-reactivity, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 242 pages
• Publisher: Jason Aronson; 1 edition (April 28, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0765700808
• ISBN-13: 978-0765700803
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #868,552 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars concise yet thorough discussion of ADHD and its management, August 4, 1999

By	"metallictwist" (CA USA) - See all my reviews

I read a borrowed copy and was ordering my own book within 24 hours. Both as a professional working with "at risk" children and as the mother of a child with a psychobiological disorder, I whole-heartedly recommend Dr. Horacek's book. In a spare 211 pages he gives perhaps the clearest most readable discussion of neuroanatomy and neurotransmitters I have encountered. He covers medical management and includes a fascinating glimpse of drug manufacture and marketing, the FDA, and the quandry faced by medical practitioners (hence insurance companies and consumers) in labeling a collection of behavioral symptoms. This book's cost might give some pause, but in my experience one would have to combine 2 or 3 other less readable texts to approximate the content of this single volume. It's an ideal purchase for those who want to know "why".

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding Resource!, January 3, 2001

By	Penny James (Charlotte, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brainstorms: Understanding and Treating Emotional Storms of ADHD from Childhood through Adulthood (Paperback)

This book cover all aspects of the ADD / ADHD child. Good recommendations on meds. for different types of ADHD and why.