10 Top adhd books like Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder by Gabor Maté

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Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

By: Gabor Maté

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Scattered Minds explodes the myth of attention deficit disorder as genetically based – and offers r…

"Sick and weak are not useful entries in the dictionary of self-understanding."

-Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

"Sick and weak are not useful entries in the dictionary of self-understanding."

-Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

"Given their automatic tuning out, ADD children forever find themselves being told to “pay attention"

-Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

"Given their automatic tuning out, ADD children forever find themselves being told to “pay attention"

-Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

If you liked the adhd plot in Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder by Gabor Maté , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood

By: John J. Ratey , Edward M. Hallowell

4.12

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

Through vivid stories of the experiences of their patients (both adults and children), Drs. Hallowe… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • parenting
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adhd
  • science
"Families, by and large, like most groups, resist change. If one member of a family wants to move away, this is regarded as a betrayal, for example. If one member of a family is fat and tries to lose …"

-John J. Ratey, Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood

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2. Taking Charge of Adult ADHD

By: Russell A. Barkley

3.57

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

For adults with ADHD, problems with attention, planning, problem solving, and controlling emotions … read more

Similar categories in Russell A. Barkley's Taking Charge of Adult ADHD book and Gabor Maté's Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

  • science
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adhd
  • self help
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3. Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers

By: Gabor Maté , Gordon Neufeld

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

International authority on child development Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D., joins forces with bestselling a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • psychology
  • self help

4. Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

By: Pete Walker

3.99

Format: 512 pages,

I have Complex PTSD [Cptsd] and wrote this book from the perspective of someone who has experienced… read more

Similar categories in Pete Walker's Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving book and Gabor Maté's Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

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5. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

By: Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay C. Gibson's Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents book and Gabor Maté's Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

  • self help
  • personal development
  • parenting
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Hate is a normal and involuntary reaction when somebody tries to control you for no good reason. It signals that the person is extinguishing your emotional life force by getting his or her needs met …"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

"If parents don’t label their own behavior as abusive, their child won’t label it that way either. Even as adults, many people have no idea that what happened to them in childhood was abusive. As a re…"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

"How many people get to be awake and aware for the emergence of the person they were always meant to be? How many people get to have two lifetimes in one? So tell me, is it worth the pain to get to li…"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

"No child can be good enough to evoke love from a highly self-involved parent. Nevertheless, these children come to believe that the price of making a connection is to put other people first and treat…"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

6. Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences

By: Peter A. Levine , None

3.67

Format: 272 pages,

Nature's Lessons in Healing Trauma... Waking the Tigeroffers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It… read more

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7. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

By: None

4.27

Format: 127 pages, Hardcover

A pioneering researcher and one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold n… read more

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8. Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

By: Gregory S. Works

4.26

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Don’t let family history set the course for your future. Triumph was strategically designed to help… read more

Similar categories in Gregory S. Works's Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation book and Gabor Maté's Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"Choose joy."

-Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

"Be okay with having health-essential boundaries."

-Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

"God has been there with us every step of the way."

-Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

"Find people who are fighting the same illness that you are."

-Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

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9. ADHD 2.0 : New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction—From Childhood Through Adulthood

By: Edward M. Hallowell

4.09

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary new approach to ADD/ADHD featuring cutting-edge research and strategies to help rea… read more

Similar categories in Edward M. Hallowell's ADHD 2.0 : New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction—From Childhood Through Adulthood book and Gabor Maté's Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • parenting
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adhd
  • science
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10. Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

By: Anna Lembke

3.91

Format: 304 pages, ebook

This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important, it's about how to find the delic… read more

Similar categories in Anna Lembke's Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence book and Gabor Maté's Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
"The reason we’re all so miserable may be because we’re working so hard to avoid being miserable."

-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

"The paradox is that hedonism, the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake, leads to anhedonia, which is the inability to enjoy pleasure of any kind."

-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

"With prolonged and repeated exposure to pleasurable stimuli, our capacity to tolerate pain decreases, and our threshold for experiencing pleasure increases."

-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

"Beyond extreme examples of running from pain, we’ve lost the ability to tolerate even minor forms of discomfort. We’re constantly seeking to distract ourselves from the present moment, to be entertai…"

-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

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11. AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

By: Ronald M. Razmi

4.28

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Explores the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the healthcare industry AI … read more

Similar categories in Ronald M. Razmi's AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors book and Gabor Maté's Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

  • nonfiction
"It’s true that AI can mimic the human brain, but it can also outperform us mere humans by discovering complex patterns that no human being could ever process and identify."

-Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

"In short, physicians are getting more and more data, which requires more sophisticated interpretation and which takes more time. AI is the solution, enhancing every stage of patient care from researc…"

-Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

"Pilots used to fly planes manually, but now they operate a dashboard with the help of computers. This has made flying safer and improved the industry. Healthcare can benefit from the same type of app…"

-Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

"It’s estimated that AI could free up to 25% of clinician time across different specialties. This increased amount of time could mean less hurried encounters and more humane interactions, including mo…"

-Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

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12. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

By: Richard C. Schwartz

4.15

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts t… read more

Similar categories in Richard C. Schwartz's No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model book and Gabor Maté's Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The big insight was that giving a troubled person a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole or main cause of their symptoms was unnecessarily limiting, pathologizing, and could become self-…"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

"IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that …"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

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13. Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

By: Gabor Maté

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Scattered Minds explodes the myth of attention deficit disorder as genetically based – and offers r… read more

Similar categories in Gabor Maté's Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder book and Gabor Maté's Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • parenting
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adhd
  • science
"Sick and weak are not useful entries in the dictionary of self-understanding."

-Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

"Given their automatic tuning out, ADD children forever find themselves being told to “pay attention"

-Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

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14. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • parenting
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

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15. Your Brain's Not Broken: Strategies for Navigating Your Emotions and Life with ADHD

By: Tamara Rosier

4.30

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

If you have ADHD, your brain doesn't work in the same way as a "normal" or neurotypical brain does … read more

Similar categories in Tamara Rosier's Your Brain's Not Broken: Strategies for Navigating Your Emotions and Life with ADHD book and Gabor Maté's Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adhd
  • science
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16. Dirty Laundry: Why Adults with ADHD Are So Ashamed and What We Can Do to Help

By: Richard Pink

4.07

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

An empowering and witty guide to banishing shame and living your fullest life with ADHD—plus tips f… read more

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  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adhd
  • audiobook
"No one can hate themselves into a version of themselves that they like"

-Richard Pink, Dirty Laundry: Why Adults with ADHD Are So Ashamed and What We Can Do to Help

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17. How to Be the Love You Seek: Break Cycles, Find Peace, and Heal Your Relationships

By: Nicole LePera

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the creator of The Holistic Psychologist and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller How to… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You! by Sasha Hamdani

18. Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!

By: Sasha Hamdani

3.79

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Destress, find your community, and practice self-love with these 100+ exercises to reinforce ADHD a… read more

Similar categories in Sasha Hamdani's Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You! book and Gabor Maté's Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adhd
  • audiobook
"People with ADHD have an unbridled sense of urgency about everything, because if it isn't tackled immediately, it is likely to be forgotten or lost. Instead of being able to prioritize based on impor…"

-Sasha Hamdani, Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!

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19. A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD: Embrace Neurodiversity, Live Boldly, and Break Through Barriers

By: Sari Solden

3.66

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Live boldly as a woman with ADHD! This radical guide   will show you how to cultivate your individu… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adhd
  • audiobook
"You have to take a leap of faith and believe that living an authentic life of personal power and pride is more important than the fear and pain that have been holding you back."

-Sari Solden, A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD: Embrace Neurodiversity, Live Boldly, and Break Through Barriers

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20. How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain (Not Against It)

By: Jessica McCabe

4.52

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In this honest, friendly, and shame-free guide, the creator of the award-winning YouTube channel Ho… read more

Similar categories in Jessica McCabe's How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain (Not Against It) book and Gabor Maté's Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adhd
  • audiobook
"Sure, I have limits, but as fellow YouTuber and ADHDer Hannah Hart told me, creativity loves limits."

-Jessica McCabe, How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain (Not Against It)

"We are acceptable humans as is, not once we stop having ADHD. You do not need to be fixed because you are not a broken version of normal."

-Jessica McCabe, How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain (Not Against It)

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21. Still Distracted After All These Years: Help and Support for Older Adults with ADHD

By: Kathleen G. Nadeau

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

One of the foremost ADHD experts tackles adult cases in the aging generation and offers a practical… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen G. Nadeau's Still Distracted After All These Years: Help and Support for Older Adults with ADHD book and Gabor Maté's Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adhd
  • audiobook

14 Top audiobook books like Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder by Gabor Maté

Transform Your Habits

Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood

John J. Ratey , Edward M. Hallowell

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

Transform Your Habits

ADHD 2.0 : New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction—From Childhood Through Adulthood

Edward M. Hallowell

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

Anna Lembke

3.91

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16 best-selling audiobook books like Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson

Transform Your Habits

It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

Mark Wolynn

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

Emily Nagoski

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

Transform Your Habits

What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

Bruce D. Perry

4.44

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