The Last Normal Child: Essays on the Intersection of Kids, Culture, and Psychiatric Drugs [Hardcover]

Lawrence H. Diller (Author)

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Publication Date: Sep 1 2006 | ISBN-10: 0275990966 | ISBN-13: 978-0275990961 | Edition: annotated edition

We live in an increasingly fast-paced and high-demand society which pressures children to excel and prepare for college and career from an early age - and pressures parents to assure their offspring compete and meet the high-achieving norm for youngsters. Psychiatrist Larry Diller gives us a reality check. The author questions why psychotropic medications are increasingly being used on children, and reviews the dangers and side effects, and the psyche of a culture that feels they are so often necessary. He is not opposed to all use, but offers through vignettes, history and his own observations intriguing and troubling insights into what he sees as the overdiagnosis and overmedication of our children. The author describes both the development and current application of psychiatric medications for children, whose parents are now seeking the drugs for offspring as young as eight. He examines the marketing techniques being used by industry to "sell" acceptance of diagnoses including ADHD to parents and educators. Diller illustrates the issues with compassionate and vivid stories from rooms where he has treated children who later face the consequences of being labelled and drugged, even when they appeared normal to the psychiatrist.

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Product Details

Hardcover: 148 pages
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; annotated edition edition (Sep 1 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0275990966
ISBN-13: 978-0275990961
Product Dimensions: 15.5 x 1.8 x 23.5 cm
Shipping Weight: 340 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #199,214 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #44 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Psychology & Counseling > Psychopharmacology

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"The author is a behavioral-developmental pediatrician with over 20 years of experience in treating problems of behavior and learning in children at home and at school. His previous books on drug use include "Running on Ritalin" (1998) and "Should I Medicate My Child?" (CH, Oct'02). In this work he identifies and discusses problems associated with the increasingly widespread use of Ritalin--not only in children with suspected attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but also in young adults (primarily college-age students, before taking the SAT or other tests), and even in adults who wish to improve their intellectual performance. (The Ritalin production rate has increased an astounding 1,700 percent in the US in the last 15 years; the US consumes 80 percent of the world's Ritalin.) The well-written chapters are short essays, each reflecting the author's experiences. Readers will encounter no forced preaching; Diller lets his audience draw its own conclusions....Highly recommended. All levels." -

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