the field guide to adhd

190 Pages·2017·7.3 MB·English

PSYCHIATRY - THEORY, APPLICATIONS AND TREATMENTS

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PSYCHIATRY - THEORY, APPLICATIONS AND TREATMENTS

T F G ADHD
HE IELD UIDE TO

W T D ’ W Y
HAT HEY ON T ANT OU
K
TO NOW

BLAKE HARDING
EDITOR
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To Chaparrelle
For teaching me humility and compassion
and reminding me what is important

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments ix
How to Use This Book? xiii
Preface xvii
Prologue xix
Chapter 1 Architectures of Division: Sounding the Alarm
on ADHD 1
Chapter 2 Different Embodied Regimes of ADHD:
Pressing ADHD Questions and Directions 23
Chapter 3 Pills, Power and Shifting Agency:
Where Creativity Is Excluded and Conformance
Is Enforced 43
Chapter 4 The Secret History and Origins of ADHD:
A Thoroughly Pre-Modern Diversity 61
Chapter 5 High Impact Approaches to Thriving
with ADHD 75
viii Contents
Chapter 6 Redesigning and Rethinking ADHD: Radically
Undervalued Pathways 87
Chapter 7 Case Studies in Harnessing ADHD as a
Beneficial Diversity 109
Conclusion 121
Appendix 129
References 139
Index 152
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The journey to writing The Field Guide to ADHD: What They Don’t
Want You to Know is the product of a more than a decade of incredibly
rewarding research, writing, travel and adventure. This work has been at
times arduous, stimulating and demanding and admittedly I have wanted
to give up, however I have felt privileged to be able to do this work. I
feel an intellectual and ethical responsibility to educate and inspire
positive change as particularly related to the global realities of social,
economic and health inequalities, especially as concerned with ADHD. I
know this work has the great potential to influence, inspire and effect
positive changes in alleviating ADHD driven inequalities, positively
changing the conceptualizations of ADHD and improving how society
views this normal diversity. So I’ve tried to honor these beliefs by
pouring everything I have into this book and I have high yet humble hope
this work will have a positive impact in improving the unnerving and
unequal state of ADHD, no matter how small the positive sway. But I did
not do this work alone. During the course of this multi-year work I have
become indebted and deeply thankful to have been joined and supported
by a number of inspiring and much more intelligent people than me.
While writing a book is an enormous undertaking, it only finally comes
x Blake Harding
together with the engagement, assistance and encouragement of a small
lovely village of warm, generous and selfless individuals.
To be sure all the seemingly less important deemphasized and long
days dedicated to research, writing and editing were made feasible with
the encouragement and support of many kind people. Thank you Ray
Marks at Columbia for believing in the promise of this work from the
beginning and providing substantial latitude in sponsoring this work.
Your dedicated, humble and generous support is a rare and incredible
gift. I want to thank the many other distinguished faculties in the
Counseling, Clinical Psychology and Health and Behavior Studies
departments at Columbia University in New York for making this work
financially and pragmatically possible. The support from Columbia has
been essential to the research, writing and final publishing of this book.
This project would not have been feasible with out the continual stream
of positive encouragement from the Columbia community and the
seemingly endless cafes, libraries and temporary wherever in the moment
workspaces. I’ve been privileged to work in many spaces whether nestled
on the dreamy Columbia campus in Harlem, on visits to Tucson’s
breathtaking Sonoran ecology and variously in pop up workspaces while
researching or working in Europe, which have provided inspiration and
kindly lent in the moment spaces for this project.
I want to also thank the faculty and administration at Stanford
University and the Amgen Foundation for providing early generous
funding and the opportunity to spend time on the “Farm” in Palo Alto
while pursuing behavioral medicine research efforts. The opportunity to
research and study at Stanford served as a catalyst in pushing me down
the intensive pathway towards researching inequalities while leaving
many discernable fingerprints in between the lines of this work. This
project has grown up, sprouted and planted many deep roots over many
years in part from the numerous conversations, interactions and learning
experiences at decidedly one of the most inspirational and diverse places
I have ever been lucky enough to be affiliated with: University of
Califonria in Berkeley. I am thankful to many at UC Berkeley for