Delivered from Distraction by Edward M. Hallowell

Original, charismatic, energetic, often brilliant, people with ADD have extraordinary talents and gifts embedded in their highly charged but easily distracted minds. As Hallowell and Ratey point out, 'attention deficit disorder' is a highly misleading description of an intriguing kind of mind. Ratey build on the breakthroughs of Driven to Distraction to offer a comprehensive and entirely up-to-date guide to living a successful life with ADD. And doctors are realizing that millions of adults suffer from this condition, though the vast majority of them remain undiagnosed and untreated.

Drug therapies, our understanding of the role of diet and exercise, even the way we define the disorder-all are changing radically. Now a second revolution is under way in the approach to ADD, and the news is great. Widely recognized as the classic in the field, the book has sold more than a million copies.

Hallowell lives in the Boston area with his wife Sue and they have three children, Lucy, Jack and Tucker.'If you read only one book about attention deficit disorder, it should be Delivered from Distraction.'-Michael Thompson, Ph., New York Times bestselling co-author of Raising Cain In 1994, Driven to Distraction sparked a revolution in our understanding of attention deficit disorder. The groundbreaking Distraction series, which began with Driven to Distraction, co-authored with Dr John Ratey in 1994, sparked a revolution in understanding of ADHD.ĭr Hallowell has been featured on 20/20, 60 Minutes, Oprah, PBS, CNN, The Today Show, Dateline, Good Morning America, The New York Times, USA Today, Newsweek, Time Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe and many more. He is a regular columnist for ADDitude Magazine.ĭr. He has spent the past four decades helping thousands of adults and children live happy and productive lives through his strength-based approach to neurodiversity, and has ADHD and dyslexia himself.ĭr Hallowell is a New York Times bestselling author and has written 20 books on multiple psychological topics. He is the Founder of The Hallowell ADHD Centers in Boston MetroWest, New York City, San Francisco, Palo Alto and Seattle. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Tulane Medical School, and was a Harvard Medical School faculty member for 21 years. is a board-certified child and adult psychiatrist and world authority on ADHD.

Delivered from Distraction by Edward M. Hallowell