Because I come from a crazy family : the making of a psychiatrist

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Label

Because I come from a crazy family : the making of a psychiatrist

Title remainder

the making of a psychiatrist

Statement of responsibility

Edward M. Hallowell

Creator

• trueHallowell, Edward M

Author

• trueHallowell, Edward M

Subject

• Biographies
• trueChild psychiatrists
• trueChildren of alcoholics
• trueChildren of people with mental illnesses
• trueFamilies -- Biography
• trueFamily and alcoholism
• trueFamily problems
• trueGrowing up
• Hallowell, Edward M. -- Mental health -- Biography
• truePsychiatrists
• truePsychiatrists -- Biography
• Psychotherapy -- Biography
• trueAbusive men

Genre

• trueBiography

Language

eng

Summary

When Edward M. Hallowell was eleven, a voice out of nowhere told him he should become a psychiatrist. A mental health professional of the time would have called this psychosis. But young Edward (Ned) took it in stride, despite not quite knowing what "psychiatrist" meant. With a psychotic father, alcoholic mother, abusive stepfather, and two so-called learning disabilities of his own, Ned was accustomed to unpredictable behaviour from those around him, and to a mind he felt he couldn't always control. The voice turned out to be right. Now, decades later, Hallowell is a leading expert on attention disorders and the author of twenty books, including Driven to Distraction, the work that introduced ADD to the world. In Because I Come from a Crazy Family, he tells the often strange story of a childhood marked by what he calls the "WASP triad" of alcoholism, mental illness, and politeness, and explores the wild wish, surging beneath his incredible ambition, that he could have saved his own family of drunk, crazy, and well-intentioned eccentrics, and himself. Because I Come from a Crazy Family is an affecting, at times harrowing, ultimately moving memoir about crazy families and where they can lead, about being called to the mental health profession, and about the unending joys and challenges that come with helping people celebrate who they are

Tone

• trueInspiring

Writing style

• trueCandid
• trueEngaging

Biography type

autobiography

Dewey number

610.69

Illustrations

genealogical tables

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction