DriventoDistraction

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., is in private practice in adult and child psychiatry and has offices in both the Boston area and New York City. He lives with his wife, Sue, and children, Lucy, Jack, and Tucker. www.drhallowell.com John J. Ratey, M.D., is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and is in private practice. He lives in the Boston area. www.johnratey.com INTRODUCTION TO THE ANCHOR EDITION Leading up to the publication of the first edition of Driven to Distraction in 1994, I remember a conversation I had with Jonathan Galassi, now the man in charge of the New York publishing house Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Friends since high school and college, Jon and I confide in each other on just about everything. As an editor, Jon had concerns about this new book I was about to send out into the world. “No one’s heard of attention deficit disorder, and from the title I’m worried people will think it’s a book about cars.” Nearly two million in sales later, Jon and I still chuckle on the fallibility of even the most perspicacious of editors. Back in 1994, few people had even heard of ADD, as ......