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Scattered Minds

The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder – The International Bestseller

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Scattered Minds

By: Gabor Maté
Narrated by: Daniel Maté
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FROM THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTELLING AUTHOR OF WHEN THE BODY SAYS NO

The groundbreaking guide to Attention Deficit Disorder, challenging conventional myths around ADHD and providing practical guidance for children and adults.

Struggling with focus, impulsivity, or emotional overwhelm?
Looking to better understand ADHD in yourself or your child?

In his empowering and accessible bestseller, celebrated clinician Dr Gabor Maté seeks to dispel the myth of attention deficit disorder as genetically based – and offers real hope and advice for children and adults who live with the condition.

Drawing on decades of experience in psychology, neurology and child development – as well as his own lived experience with ADHD - Dr Maté offers a compassionate and insightful approach to understanding attention difficulties.

In Scattered Minds, you’ll discover:

  • A new understanding of ADHD and neurological development in both children and adults
  • Why challenges with focus, impulsivity and emotional regulation develop
  • How early experiences can shape the developing brain
  • Practical insights to help parents better understand and support their children
  • Tools for adults with ADHD to make sense of their behaviours and emotions


Blending science, compassionate insight and real-life examples, Scattered Minds is an essential read for parents of children with ADHD, or for adults navigating neurodiversity and attention difficulties.

‘A healer to be cherished and this exciting book arrives at just the right time’ Naomi Klein, bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine

©2023 Gabor Maté (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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Gabor Maté’s connections—between the intensely personal and the global, the spiritual and the medical, the psychological and the political—are bold, wise and deeply moral. He is a healer to be cherished and this exciting book arrives at just the right time
His medical background and lucid writing style make complex biological processes accessible to non-scientific readers.
Rare and refreshing. . . . Here you will find family stories, an accessible description of brain development and sound information. You will also find hope.
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I really liked this audiobook, Gabor Maté is one of our time's most insightful, wise and knowledgeable authors. I've read and listened to many of his books and I have always found them packed with really useful information. To my mind, his books are essential reading in the fields they cover.
Whilst I've never been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD myself, most of the content of this book could've been written about me. My eldest daughter was recently diagnosed with ADD and my youngest with autism.
I've somehow independently arrived at, and taken the path outlined in this book to overcome ADD without the benefit of the shortcut this book would've represented. I can, therefore, independently verify that this path is indeed correct; spiritual and emotional growth, supported with the necessary counselling, is the necessary path. I can attest that life is immeasurably better for having taken this path.
Please listen to and share this title with anyone who suffers with the difficulties that ADD/ADHD present. Not only to the individual, but parents, friends and siblings that are impacted. You will be doing them a great service.

Outstanding wisdom, insight, and delivery.

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This book has made such a difference to my life.
Clear and concise review, taking the reader through the journey of an individual with ADD.

Thank you Gabor Mate for taking the time to put together such a profound piece of work.

Life changing book

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Maté works to provide the reader with a well-researched and grounded framework for ADD/ADHD as one of both neurology and childhood experience.

This more holistic view shows the reader how an abusive, neglectful, or simply inadequate childhood environment can hinder the development of those with particularly sensitive neurologies.

As someone with ADHD, and having read extensively around the topic of childhood trauma, I highly recommend this book. It has not only helped me to wrap a number of concepts into one integrated whole, but also given me a greater capacity for self-compassion and a direction forward in my own journey of healing.

An Empathetic and Holistic Approach

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I have never before heard someone describe what it is like to be in my brain, to live my daily struggles which seem so effortless to others. Truly brilliant, an excellent read/listen. I would, as always, love Gabor to narrate his own words as I find his voice so soothing, but ironically, it is most likely his ADD which makes this not possible. Daniel always does a great job in his father’s absence.

Just brilliant!

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easy listening, very informative and helped me figure a lot of things out. thank you.

helped me understand myself a load more than I did, a must for anybody who has adhd or lives with somebody with adhd.

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