Book Reviews

• Movers, Dreamers, and Risk-Takers: Unlocking the Power of ADHD
  When you have a disability, the world by and large tends to magnify and focus on what is “wrong” with you. Friends of mine who were diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in school were constantly ...
• The ADD Myth: How to Cultivate the Unique Gifts of Intense Personalities
  A few hours after I finished reading The ADD Myth, while pondering something that had occurred during the day, it suddenly hit me with great clarity what author Martha Burge was describing when she said ...
• The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques Workbook
  In 2008, Margaret Wehrenberg published The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques:  Understanding How Your Brain Makes You Anxious and What You Can Do to Change it.  Now a workbook has been released to accompany the ...
• Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life
  A wonderfully executed book which sets out with the lofty objective of organizing and taming our society’s fast-paced lifestyle, Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life is a true prize in its class of literature.  It’s ...
• Ben Behind His Voices: One Family’s Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope
  Ben Behind His Voices is an inspirational story about a family’s experience with schizophrenia. The focus of Randye Kaye’s book is on her son Ben, who struggled for many years with mental health and substance ...
• Bright Not Broken: Gifted Kids, ADHD, and Autism
  Diane M. Kennedy and Rebecca S. Banks, the authors of Bright Not Broken, and the contributor, Temple Grandin, all have a combination of personal and professional experience with learning and developmental disabilities. Kennedy and Banks are ...
• Mistaken for ADHD
  After reading this book I believe the title says it all: “Mistaken for ADHD.” The author, Dr. Frank Barnhill, attempts to help parents, teachers, social workers and doctors who deal with adolescents and young children ...
• Overcoming ADHD: Helping Your Child Become Calm, Engaged and Focused Without a Pill
  Overcoming ADHD: Helping Your Child Become Calm, Engaged, And Focused – Without a Pill, was written by the late Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D., noted psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, with Jacob Greenspan. Published in 2009, Overcoming ADHD ...
• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Adult ADHD
  The Complete Idiot's Guide to Adult ADHD by Eileen Bailey and Donald Haupt, M.D., was a total pleasure to read. I was amazed by how much I learned in reading this book, which is full ...
• Parenting Children With ADHD
  Parenting Children With ADHD: 10 Lessons That Medicine Cannot Teach Kids with ADHD need to be loved and shown how to become successful adults. Unfortunately, their lack of attention and restlessness often get in the way. ...
• The Survival Guide for Kids With ADD or ADHD
  What are ADD and ADHD? What does it mean to have ADD and ADHD? How can kids diagnosed with ADD and ADHD help themselves succeed in school, get along better at home, and form healthy, ...
• ADHD & Me
  ADHD & Me: What I Learned from Lighting Fires at the Dinner Table Blake Taylor’s memoir, written when he was 17, offers, for the first time, a young person’s account of what it’s like to live ...
• Driven To Distraction
  Driven To Distraction : Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood From Amazon.com reviews: This clear and valuable book dispels a variety of myths about attention deficit disorder (ADD). Since both authors have ...
• Recommended Books on ADHD
  Looking for a book to help you or a loved one better understand attention deficit disorder (ADHD)? We recommend the following: Driven To Distraction : Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through ...