HYPER: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF ADHD
Book ID/图书代码： 00500014B73960
English Summary/英文概要： The first book of its kind, this compelling and moving memoir about what it’s like to be a child with ADHD also explains the history of the diagnosis and how we have come to medicate more than four million children today.
Among the first generation of boys prescribed medication for hyperactivity in the 1980s, Timothy Denevi took Ritalin at the age of six, and during the first week, it triggered a psychotic reaction. Doctors recommended behavior therapy, then antidepressants. Nothing worked. As Timothy’s parents and doctors sought to treat his behavior, he was subjected to a liquid diet, a sleep-deprived EEG, and bizarre behavioral assessments before finding help in therapy combined with medication. In Hyper, Timothy describes how he makes his way through school, knowing he is a problem for those who love him, longing to be able to be good and fit in, hanging out with boys who have similar symptoms but meet different ends, and finally realizing he has to come to grips with his disorder before his life spins out of control.
Skillfully and seamlessly using his own experience as a springboard, Denevi also reveals the origins of ADHD, from the late nineteenth century when hyperactivity was attributed to defective moral conscience, demons, or head trauma, through the twentieth century when food additives, bad parenting, and even government conspiracies were blamed, to the most recent genetic research. He traces drug treatment from Benzedrine in 1937 through the common usage of the stupefying chlorpromazine and brand new Ritalin in the 1950s to the use of antidepressants in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
Riveting, thought-provoking, and deeply intelligent, this is a remarkable book both for its sensitive portrait of a child’s experience as well as for its ability to illuminate a remarkably complex and controversial mental condition. Rick Lavoie, author of It’s SoMuch Work to Be Your Friend, says Hyper is “a significant and singular contribution to our field.”
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书是该系列的第一本，这本引人入胜和充满感动的关于一个有多动症的孩子的成长的回忆录解释了该症的历史，以及我们如何用药物治疗如今四百多万患有多动症的孩子。
治疗第一代男孩的多动症的处方药出现在上世纪80年代，蒂莫西在六岁时服用了利他林，而服用的第一周期间它引发了精神病反应。医生推荐行为疗法，然后是抗抑郁药。但是都没有效果。当蒂莫西的父母和医生寻求治疗他的多动症的方法，在找到有效的结合药物的治疗前，他接受了液体饮食，睡眠剥夺脑电图，怪异的行为评估。在《亢奋》中蒂莫西讲述了他如何以自己的方式完成学业，知道他是那些爱他的人的麻烦，渴望着能表现好和适应好，和有类似症状但结果不同的男孩打发时间，并最终意识到在生活失控前他必须与疾病斗争。
蒂莫西巧妙和无缝地利用自己的经验作为跳板，也揭示了ADHD的起源，从十九世纪后期将多动归因于有缺陷的道德良知，恶魔或头部创伤，到二十世纪对食品添加剂，糟糕的父母，甚至政府阴谋的指责，到最近的遗传研究。他追踪了在1937年通过巨大氯丙嗪的普遍使用而开始的苯丙胺药物治疗，和上世纪50年代全新的利他林的使用，到上世纪70年代，80年代和90年代对抗抑郁药的使用。
引人入胜，发人深省和充满智慧，无论是对孩子的经历的敏感描述还是阐述一个非常复杂和有争议的心理状态的能力，这都是一本了不起的书。《太多的工作将会陪伴你》的作者瑞克•拉瓦，认为《亢奋》“是对我们领域的显著和突出的贡献”。（LNL）
Awards/获奖情况：这本书非常优秀地讲述了作者患有多动症的的成长经历。蒂莫西将真诚的个人故事和迷人的鲜为人知的ADHD历史背景混合在一起，这使得对该书爱不释手。我高度推荐它。This is an excellent account of the author’s experience growing up with ADHD. Timothy Denevi’s heartfelt personal stories mixed in with a fascinating history of the little known background of ADHD makes this book a page turner. I highly recommend it.
About the Author/作者介绍： 蒂莫西•德内夫获得了爱荷华大学的非小说类领域的硕士学位。他获得了“麦克道尔•科勒尼”，”弗吉尼亚州创意艺术中心“和“斯阔峡谷作家协会”的奖学金。他的作品发表在各种杂志和期刊上，包括“墨西哥海湾艺术与文学”，“霍巴特”，“快速城市”和“夏威夷评论”。他住在华盛顿附近，是乔治梅森大学的纪实文学硕士课程的客座作家。Timothy Denevi received his MFA in nonfiction from the University of Iowa. He’s been awarded fellowships by The MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. His writing has appeared in various magazines and journals, including Gulf Coast Arts & Letters, Hobart, Instant City, and Hawaii Review. He lives near Washington, DC and is the Nonfiction Visiting Writer in the MFA program at George Mason University.
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