Acknowledgments Author's Note Introduction PART ONE: The Nature of Attention Deficit Disorder 1 So Much Soup and Garbage Can 2 Many Roads Not Traveled 3 We Could All Go Crazy 4 A Conflictual Marriage: ADD and the Family (I) 5 Forgetting to Remember the Future PART TWO: How the Brain Develops and How the Circuits and Chemistry of ADD Arise 6 Different Worlds: Heredity and the Environments of Childhood 7 Emotional Allergies: ADD and Sensitivity 8 A Surrealistic Choreography 9 Attunement and Attachment 10 The Footprints of Infancy PART THREE: The Roots of ADD in Family and Society 11 An Utter Stranger: ADD and the Family (II) 12 Stories within Stories: ADD and the Family (III) 13 This Most Frenetic of Cultures: The Social Roots of ADD PART FOUR: The Meaning of ADD Traits 14 Severed Thoughts and Flibbertigibbets: Distractibility and Tuning Out 15 The Pendulum Swings: Hyperactivity, Lethargy and Shame PART FIVE: The ADD Child and Healing 16 It Ain't over Till It's over: Unconditional Positive Regard 17 Wooing the Child 18 Like Fish in the Sea 19 Just Looking for Attention 20 The Defiant Ones: Oppositionality 21 Defusing Counterwill 22 My Marshmallow Caught Fire: Motivation and Autonomy 23 Trusting the Child, Trusting Oneself: ADD in the Classroom 24 Always on My Case: Teenagers PART SIX: The ADD Adult 25 Justifying One's Existence: Self-Esteem 26 Memories Are Made of This 27 Remembering What Didn't Happen: The ADD Relationship 28 Moses Saved by the Angel: Self-Parenting (I) 29 The Physical and Spiritual Environment: Self-Parenting (II) 30 In Place of Tears and Sorrow: Addictions and the ADD Brain PART SEVEN: Conclusion 31 I Never Saw the Trees: What Medications Can and Cannot Do 32 What It Means to Attend Notes Bibliography Index.