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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (25 Feb 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 140394511X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1403945112
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Boys in the West are being labelled as having psychiatric disorders, behaviour problems and special educational needs, and are receiving psychiatric drugs in ever-greater numbers. In this book, Dr Timimi argues that this crisis reflects a fundamental ambivalence that Western culture has toward children which affects boys in particular. Using material from diverse sources, the author shows how Western Society's political, social and economic value system is bad for families and children, and how positive alternatives can be found in non-Western traditions.
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4.0 out of 5 stars ignore last two reviews, a good read, 7 Sep 2006
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Having read the book I find the previous two reviews hard to understand. Its as if they have read a different book to me. Nowhere did I find Timimi blaming the child or the parent, suggesting ADHD could be 'disciplined away', or trying to make anyone feel guilty about their difficulties. Quite the contrary, I believe Timimi demonstrates a lot of compassion and sensitivity, for example in the case histories. Far from this book being outdated and narrowminded it is the opposite, drawing on up to date literature from a wide variety of sources. Most importantly this book is alot more than just about ADHD. Timimi makes a scholarly analysis of cross cultural beliefs and practice around children's behaviour and behaviour problems, and suggests that modern Western culture has many features that should concern us. In this respect Timimi sees the current epidemic of ADHD as a symptom of something going wrong in our culture rather than across the increasingly vast swathe of children getting this diagnosis. My only criticisms are that Timimi tries to cover too much ground in this book and at times lapses uneccessarily into a more polemical style. That said I think this is an excellent book for both academics and lay readers alike, at times a real page turner.
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5.0 out of 5 stars a profound analysis of a largely manufactured problem, 1 Oct 2005
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Timimi, an Iraqi child psychiatrist, argues that most children diagnosed with ADHD don't have much wrong with them except that those teachers and parents responsible for bringing them up are like rabbits caught in the headlights of too much political correctness and the medicalisation of our understanding of child development. He believes many so-called ADHD children are simply 'naughty boys', (significantly most are boys) whose parents are afraid to discipline them and too busy or distracted to engage with them in the development of their imaginative life. Often indeed he feels there is nothing wrong with these boys at all, that schools categorize them as ill to save themselves the bother of relating to their normal behaviour.

He analyses attitudes to child development in many different cultures and looks at how western economic/political hegemony influences pharmaceutical/medical dominance in what should be therapeutic approaches and in educational practice. He also gives many examples of his own practice of a much more down to earth approach which he has found successful.

As a psychiatric social worker this is one of the most profound critiques of western mental health practice I have read.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Very Unhelpful, 15 Dec 2005
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Another text trying to blame the child and the parents for a medical condition. It is now widely accepted that ADHD is a physiological condition, and books like this do nothing to support those who have to live with it. If your child has been diagnosed as ADHD, the best thing you can do is not to read this book.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Utter drivel.
Timimi's arguments show a fundemental lack of understanding of not only ADHD but of mental health in general. Read more
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