Dyslogic Syndrome: Why Millions of Kids are 'Hyper', Attention-Disordered, Learning Disabled, Depressed, Aggressive, Defiant, or Violent--and What We Can Do About It PDF
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Dyslogic Syndrome of relatedinterest Kids in the Syndrome Mix of ADHD, LD, Asperger’s, Tourette’s, Bipolar, and More! The one stop guide for parents, teachers, and other professionals MartinL.KutscherMD WithacontributionfromTonyAttwood WithacontributionfromRobertR.Wolff MD ISBN9781843108115pb ISBN9781843108108hb Autism, Brain, and Environment RichardLathe ISBN9781843104384 The Complete Guide to Asperger’s Syndrome TonyAttwood ISBN9781843104957 Disorganized Children A Guide for Parents and Professionals EditedbySamuelM.SteinandUttomChowdhury ISBN9781843101482 Genius! Nurturing the Spirit ofthe Wild, Odd, and Oppositional Child – Revised Edition GeorgeT.Lynn WithJoanneBarrieLynn ISBN9781843108207 Dyslogic Syndrome Why Millions of Kids are “Hyper,” Attention-Disordered, Learning Disabled, Depressed, Aggressive, Defiant, or Violent – and What We Can Do About It Bernard Rimland Jessica Kingsley Publishers London and Philadelphia Firstpublishedin2008 byJessicaKingsleyPublishers 116PentonvilleRoad LondonN19JB,UK and 400MarketStreet,Suite400 Philadelphia,PA19106,USA www.jkp.com Copyright©TheWackerFoundation2008 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproducedinanymaterialform (includingphotocopyingorstoringitinanymediumbyelectronicmeansandwhetheror nottransientlyorincidentallytosomeotheruseofthispublication)withoutthewritten permissionofthecopyrightownerexceptinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988orunderthetermsofalicenceissuedbythe CopyrightLicensingAgencyLtd,SaffronHouse,6–10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Applicationsforthecopyrightowner’swrittenpermissiontoreproduceanypartofthis publicationshouldbeaddressedtothepublisher. Warning:Thedoingofanunauthorisedactinrelationtoacopyrightworkmayresultin bothacivilclaimfordamagesandcriminalprosecution. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Rimland,Bernard,1928-2006. Dyslogicsyndrome:whymillionsofkidsare“hyper,”attention-disordered,learning disabled,depressed,aggressive,defiant,orviolent-andwhatwecandoaboutit/Bernard Rimland. p.cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN-13:978-1-84310-877-1(alk.paper) 1. Behaviordisordersin children--Environmentalaspects.2. Behaviordisordersinchildren--Nutritionalaspects.3. Behaviordisordersinchildren--Physiologicalaspects.4. Neurotoxicology.5. Behavioral toxicology. I.Title. RJ506.B44R562008 618.92'89--dc22 2007019946 BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData ACIPcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN9781843108771 ISBNpdfeBook9781846427329 PrintedandboundinGreatBritainby AthenaeumPress,Gateshead,TyneandWear Contents Introduction 7 Part I: The Dyslogic Epidemic 13 Chapter 1: Overview: What is “Dyslogic?” 15 Chapter 2: The Dyslogic Epidemic’s Victims: America’s “Mad,” “Bad,” and “Dumbed Down” Children 27 Chapter 3: Why “Nurture” Fixes Can’t Cure Dyslogic 43 Chapter 4: Why Drugs Don’t Cure Dyslogic 59 Part II: The Dyslogic Culprits 73 Chapter 5: Dietary Dyslogic: Why What Your Kids Eat (or Don’t Eat) Can Make Them Crazy, Sad, or Violent 75 Chapter 6: The Contaminated Brain: How our Toxic Environment Affects our Children’s Thinking 101 Chapter 7: Medically Caused Dyslogic: When Drugs and Other Medical Treatments Damage the Brain 117 Chapter 8: Why NO Dyslogical Child is “Hopeless” 143 Chapter 9: An Action Plan for Ending Dyslogic 161 SUBJECTINDEX 183 AUTHORINDEX 191 Introduction This is a book about “lost children.” It’s about children who fail at schoolandatlife.It’saboutchildrenwhocommitcrimes,andchildren who react to loving families with hostility or violence. It’s about hyperactivekids,andchildrenbattlingdepressionorbipolardisorder. Butthefirst“lostchildren”Istudiedweren’tcriminals,orkidsfailing math, or depressed children, or children who climbed the walls or yelled obscenities at their moms. Theywerechildrenevenworseoff—theywereautistic.Trappedin a world of their own, they cried, screamed, rocked, and hit. Many shrankfromhugs,andlashedoutiftheirparentstriedtotouchthem. And one of them was mine. This was back in the 1950s. I was a young psychologist, well schooledinexperimentalpsychology,statistics,andthemeasurement ofindividualdifferences.Mytraining,however,didmenogoodwhen Mark, my first child, arrived. Markdidn’tjustcry.Hescreamedasifinrage,hourafterhour,so violentlythathecouldhardlynurse.Hehatedbeingheld.Ashegrew, hebeganrockingandbanginghisheadagainsthiscrib.Hestaredinto space for hours, and looked through, rather than at, everyone, including his mother and me, as though we were invisible. His first words, spoken at only eight months of age, were “spoon,” “bear,” “all done,”and“comeon,let’splayball.”Afewmonthslater,hebeganto repeatnurseryrhymes,radiocommercialsandquestions,allspokenin an expressionless voice as if by a robot. Wehadnoideawhatwaswrong.Ourpediatrician,whohadbeen inpracticefor35years,wasbaffledaswell.Hehadneverseenorheard ofsuchachild.WhenMarkwastwo,however,mywifeputanameto 7 8 DYSLOGICSYNDROME his condition. She remembered having seen a description, in an old college textbook stored in a box in our garage, of autistic children—children who acted just like Mark. In that textbook I saw theword“autism”forthefirsttime—fiveyearsafterearningaPh.D.in psychology. ButputtinganametoMark’sproblemdidn’tsolveit.Neitherdid thechillingwordsinthebooksaboutautismthatItrackeddownatthe library. Autism, all the books said, stemmed from damage done by cold, unfeeling parents who irreparably scarred their children’s psyches.Motherswerethemajorculprits.Thetextbooks’authors,led by then-revered psychologist Bruno Bettelheim, uniformly blamed “refrigeratormothers,”who,thepsychiatristsweresure,weresubcon- sciously rejecting their children. Bettelheim likened the mothers to guards in Nazi concentration camps, dedicated to oppressing those under their control.1 Other authors varied the theme by blaming “smothermothers,”who,thepsychiatristscharged,refusedtolettheir children be themselves. The medical authorities writing these books were cruel and unsparing. I knew that, at least in our case, they were wrong. It was impossibletopicturemyloving,intelligentwifeasanevildestroyerof children. And Mark’s uncontrolled tantrums were apparent in the maternity ward, on the day he was born. How could a happy, loving new mother, ecstatic over the arrival of her child, subconsciously “smother” or “freeze” a newborn? My questions initiated a personal and professional odyssey spanningnearlyfivedecades.Itbeganwithmyintensivesearchofthe scientificliterature,whichledtotheconclusionthatautismwasabio- logical disorder, rather than an emotional illness caused by bad mothering. My research formed the basis for my 1964 book Infantile Autism:TheSyndromeandItsImplicationsforaNeuralTheoryof Behavior, which is credited with destroying the psychoanalytical myths about autism.2In1979,just15yearslater,DavidKatzwrotethatarevolution had taken place: “Ninety percent of the people in the field agree that Rimland’s book blew Bettelheim’s theory to hell.”3 Asmyresearchintotherootsofautismprogressed,andexpanded intootherareas,suchasschizophrenia,depression,andpsychopathy,it
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