Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Creativity, Novelty Seeking, and Risk

by Michael Fitzgerald

There is a great deal of information on the negative aspects of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder but very little on the positive aspects or the potentially creative aspects of this disorder. This is of enormous importance to, not alone academics, but parents and families of persons with this disorder. This book offers intelligent information about both the positive and negative aspects as well as a possible link to creativity.

189 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2008

About the author

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Michael Fitzgerald is an Irish professor of child and adolescent psychiatry, specialising in autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
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[Michael Fitzgerald · Rating 4 out of 5]

We all know those people; those ‘driven’ sorts who never stop doing something. Those polymaths who always have a different project on the go, and who seem to make time for everything. Those renaissance creatures who are always attaining a goal and who are seemingly carried along on a wave of blissful achievement. Us mortals watch them enviably and toast them good luck while finding fulfilment by watching TV reality shows and planning next year’s holiday on a budget.

By contrast, we are ‘outraged’ by the epidemic levels of bad behaviour in schools. Is it in the ‘E’ numbers? Is it in the fluoride? Is it the teachers or the parents? Is it the collapse of society, as we know it? Or is it that ADHD thing we keep hearing about? Give them a good dose of Ritalin and we can all live quiet lives.

Michael Fitzgerald, in his book, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Creativity, Novelty Seeking and Risk, argues persuasively that these über-achievers and so-called delinquents are not so far removed from each other in terms of their insatiable quest for the new; going so far to as suggest that the very roots of our civilisation are grounded in the capricious restlessness of our forebears’ thirst for new stimulation and novelty-seeking - which, of course, means taking risks.

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