questions. It was wonderful! ...
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Summary: not very useful or practical at all...
Review: This book really gets into YOUR experience of your thought processes and tells you how to correct the snags. For example: Are you always late? Close your eyes and take a look at how you visualize your personal time-line. Stretch your arms out using your right arm for the future and your left for your past. Open your eyes and take note of where each arm points. Your right-futrure arm should be pointing slightly up and slightly forward, to your right. Your left-past arm should be pointing slightly down and slightly behind you, to your left. If this is not the case adjust your arms and rearrange your visualization to these new angles. The book gets into the symbolism and dicusses it in detail.I recommend this book to people with or without ADD. It really helps clear up some cloudy thinking that all of us have developed toward many, or just a few, of our daily habits.
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Summary: Makes you think about your... thinking!
Review: This book really gets into YOUR experience of your thought processes and tells you how to correct the snags. For example: Are you always late? Close your eyes and take a look at how you visualize your personal time-line. Stretch your arms out using your right arm for the future and your left for your past. Open your eyes and take note of where each arm points. Your right-futrure arm should be pointing slightly up and slightly forward, to your right. Your left-past arm should be pointing slightly down and slightly behind you, to your left. If this is not the case adjust your arms and rearrange your visualization to these new angles. The book gets into the symbolism and dicusses it in detail.
I recommend this book to people with or without ADD. It really helps clear up some cloudy thinking that all of us have developed toward many, or just a few, of our daily habits.
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Summary: Extraordinarily useful
Review: This is a marvelous book. It's readable, full of real-world, useful systems and techniques to heal from the woundings of growing up with ADHD. This is *not* the book that recommends shooting up kids with expensive, radioactive, cancer-causing substances to "scan" their brains: that's a later book by (oddly coincidentally) the same title. Instead, this book by groundbreaking author Hartmann provides practical, solid, and effective ways to resolve old wounds, set goals, enhance communication, and understand ADD/ADHD in a meaningful and useful and effective way. You'll hear its story, see the results immediately, and feel better for having read it. It's useful for parents, friends, spouses, therapists, and even for self-help - things you can do yourself, for yourself. I've used it, my wife has, and we've used it's techniques - particuarly those in the last chapter on family communication - with our family, with great results. Five stars - this is one of the best books in the market on ADD/ADHD and what you really can do about it!
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Summary: Extraordinarily useful
Review: This is a marvelous book. It's readable, full of real-world, useful systems and techniques to heal from the woundings of growing up with ADHD. This is *not* the book that recommends shooting up kids with expensive, radioactive, cancer-causing substances to "scan" their brains: that's a later book by (oddly coincidentally) the same title. Instead, this book by groundbreaking author Hartmann provides practical, solid, and effective ways to resolve old wounds, set goals, enhance communication, and understand ADD/ADHD in a meaningful and useful and effective way. You'll hear its story, see the results immediately, and feel better for having read it. It's useful for parents, friends, spouses, therapists, and even for self-help - things you can do yourself, for yourself. I've used it, my wife has, and we've used it's techniques - particuarly those in the last chapter on family communication - with our family, with great results. Five stars - this is one of the best books in the market on ADD/ADHD and what you really can do about it!
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Summary: Excellent ADD Resource
Review: This is very well written and thought provoking book. Thom Hartmann really helps his readers to think. This book is full of great suggestions and ideas to help live a more positive ADD life. This book helps the reader to change his or her whole thinking process.
If you are just learning about ADD I strongly suggest that you read at least one of Thom Hartman's books. This man really understands ADD.
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Summary: An extraordinary view of NLP applied to ADHD
Review: This remarkable book not only offers one of the most cogent insights into ADHD (see the earlier long review a few back), and does address "attention" at length (in fact, it's all about how we attend, and to what, and in what ways), but it's also one of the best introductions to the use of NLP as a way of healing from the damage of growing up a Hunter in a Farmer's world.
Filled with practical, real-world exercises and techniques, Healing ADD (this is the first book with that title) really is about healing - coming to terms with what ADHD means in this world, learning new ways to function and position yourself in the world, and recovering from the traumas that virtually every person with ADHD who was subjected to public school carries.
This is a powerful book, with specific tools and techniques, an extensive discussion of how the ADHD attentional mechanism is different and unique for ADHD people, and one of the best introductions to NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP) available, ADHD-context or not. Highly recommended, whether you've read the author's other books or not!
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Summary: I like Thom Hartmann but question the effectiveness of NLP.
Review: Thom Hartmann is probably my all-time favorite writer on the subject of ADD. I am a 36 year old woman who was diagnosed with ADD 3 years ago. Mr. Hartmann's book, 'ADD, A Different Perception', has probably had more of a positive effect on me than anything else I've read on the subject. His positive views on ADD as a unique but misunderstood form of brain wiring have caused me to view myself in a much more positive light.
However, that being said, I've also done a bit of research on NLP, and I've found that empirical, scientific evidence for some of the ideas it espouses is lacking.
First, I rather doubt that humans can be so neatly grouped by their thinking in one primary sensory 'mode' (i.e., visual, auditory, kinesthetic etc.), being the complex creatures that we truly are. If you have read the book, then you probably took the test that summarizes the primary sensory mode in which you experience the world. I tried some of the exercises in the book, but only found one of them to be applicable to my own situation. The rest of them were decidely not very useful for me.
Not to say that this book won't resonate positively with the great majority of ADD people who read it, but I personally found 'ADD, A Different Perception' to be far more insightful and less time-consuming to get something out of, and it remains for me the best book ever written on the subject of ADD.
