Back to normal : why ordinary childhood behavior Is mistaken for ADHD, bipolar disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorder
Title:
Back to normal : why ordinary childhood behavior Is mistaken for ADHD, bipolar disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorder
Author:
Gnaulati, Enrico.
ISBN:
9780807073346
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Boston : Beacon Press, c2013.
Physical Description:
xv, 239 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Mad science and mad medicine -- The rush to diagnose -- Casualties of casual diagnosing -- Abnormalizing boys -- The normalcy of problem behavior -- ADHD or childhood narcissism at the outer edges? -- Bipolar disorder? or teenage storm and stress twenty-first-century style? -- Autistic spectrum? or a brainy, willful, introverted boy? -- Parenting with authority.
