Rolf Haubl, Katharina Liebsch (Ed.)
Mit Ritalin® leben
ADHS-Kindern eine Stimme geben
1. Edition 2010
211 pages
ISBN 978-3-647-45186-2
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Schriften des Sigmund-Freud-Instituts. Reihe 2: Psychoanalyse im interdisziplinären Dialog -
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No other diagnosis in child and adolescent psychiatry has triggered such vivid discussions in the public and specialised fields like the Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD or AD/HD). Despite this disorder being proved to be genetically conditioned by a brain-organic illness, there are still critical voices who doubt this bio-medical and psychiatric interpretation. Critics especially doubt the treatment with psychopharmic medicine. No matter where the voices are coming from, both sides forget to give the person affected a voice. Against the resolution passed on the UN-children convention the children are hardly granted a say, even though the decisions made by the adults affect their lives immensely and continuously. This book presents findings of a social-scientific research project in which 60 boys aged 7-14 give insight into their experiences they had in their families and schools when they were diagnosed an ADHD child and were to take Ritalin® or a similar psychopharmaceutical medicine.
