Aviv’s reporting reveals Oliver Sacks’s admitted fabrications—but here the focus shifts: what should we make of his nearly 50-year psychoanalysis with Leonard Shengold? Given psychoanalysis’s claims about trauma and repression, was this famously long therapy actually “successful”?
As I have worked with clients over these past five years, it has become clear to me that the foundational determinant of well-being is our relation to the (our) future.
But there is a central issue that I have with the literature on adhd, and this is a problem with this book and with the field more generally. My issue is this: why distraction? Or perhaps the question could be asked in the following way: distraction from what?