Ned Hallowell

Because I Come from a Crazy Family: The Making of a Psychiatrist

Bloomsbury USA

From the bestselling author of the classic book on ADD, Driven to Distraction, comes a memoir of the strange upbringing that shaped Dr. Edward M. Hallowell’s celebrated career. Here, 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.