![]() This opening passage shows how Maté’s deep well of compassion for others draws water from the aquifer of his personal narrative. ![]() It gives coherence, for the first time, to humiliations and failures, to plans unfulfilled and promises unkept, to gusts of manic enthusiasm that consume themselves in their own mad dance, leaving emotional debris in their wake, to the seemingly limitless disorganization of activities, of brain, car, desk, room. The shock of self-recognition many adults experience on learning about ADD is both exhilarating and painful. I felt I had discovered what it was that had always kept me from attaining psychological integrity: wholeness, the reconciliation and joining together of the disharmonious fragments of my mind… It seemed to me that I had found the passage of those dark recesses of my mind from which chaos issues without warning, hurling thoughts, plans, emotions and intentions in all directions. Describing his initial “ADD epiphany,” he writes: ![]() This confessional style doesn’t always hit the mark in nonfiction, but in this case I think he pulled it off beautifully. Something that’s good to point out up front is that Maté himself has ADD, so he writes about it from an intimate, internal perspective. Like many others before me, I was excited to explore Maté’s work and feel that I benefitted immensely from his method of framing and treating ADD. He has made a special contribution to how mental health professionals approach trauma, addiction, and––as his book Scattered Mindsdemonstrates–– attention deficit disorder (ADD). Anyone who turns their attention to the world of modern psychotherapy will quickly start finding references to Gabor Maté all over the place. ![]()
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