03176cam a2200337 4500 526266276 TxAuBib 20211106120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781632868602 1632868601 B0785SM1JT Amazon 2c8d5f1d-3585-4fa5-8b7f-26e3a4fc24a8 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3971041 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Hallowell, Edward M. Because I Come from a Crazy Family [Libby] : The Making of a Psychiatrist. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2002kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 1323kB. Biography & Autobiography. Education. Science. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>From the bestselling author of the classic book on ADD, <i>Driven to Distraction</i>, a memoir of the strange upbringing that shaped Dr. Edward M. Hallowell's celebrated career.</b><br /> <br /> When Edward M. Hallowell was eleven, a voice out of nowhere told him he should become a psychiatrist. A mental health professional of the time would have called this psychosis. But young Edward (Ned) took it in stride, despite not quite knowing what "psychiatrist" meant. With a psychotic father, alcoholic mother, abusive stepfather, and two so-called learning disabilities of his own, Ned was accustomed to unpredictable behavior from those around him, and to a mind he felt he couldn't always control.<br /> <br /> The voice turned out to be right. Now, decades later, Hallowell is a leading expert on attention disorders and the author of twenty books, including <i>Driven to Distraction</i>, the work that introduced ADD to the world. In <i>Because I Come from a Crazy Family</i>, he tells the often strange story of a childhood marked by what he calls the "WASP triad" of alcoholism, mental illness, and politeness, and explores the wild wish, surging beneath his incredible ambition, that he could have saved his own family of drunk, crazy, and well-intentioned eccentrics, and himself.<br /> <br /> <i>Because I Come from a Crazy Family</i> is an affecting, at times harrowing, ultimately moving memoir about crazy families and where they can lead, about being called to the mental health profession, and about the unending joys and challenges that come with helping people celebrate who they are.<br /> <br /> <b>A portion of the author's proceeds of this book will go to NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness).</b></p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2c8d5f1d-3585-4fa5-8b7f-26e3a4fc24a8&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2c8d5f1d-3585-4fa5-8b7f-26e3a4fc24a8&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2c8d5f1d-3585-4fa5-8b7f-26e3a4fc24a8&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)