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9 Barkley, R., et al. (2008), op. cit.; Hallowell, E., & Ratey, J. (1995), op. cit.; Hallowell, E., & Ratey, J. (2005), op. cit.
10 Ritter, M. (2007, March 27). It’s something we all do. San Jose Mercury News, p. 3A.
11 Barkley, R., et al. (2008), op. cit.
12 Ibid., p. 51.
13 Bronowski, J. Referenced in Barkley, R. (2008), op. cit., p. 51.
14 Barkley, R. (2008), op. cit., p. 51.
15 Meaux, J., & Chelonis, J. (2003). Time perception differences in children with and without ADHD. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 17(2), 64-71.
16 Barkley, R., et al. (2008), op. cit., p. 52.
17 Ritter, M. (2007, March 27), op. cit.
18 Grady, C., Springer, M., Hongwanishkul, D., McIntosh, A., & Wino-cur, G. (2006). Age-related changes in brain activity across the adult lifespan. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 227-241.
19 Barkley, R., et al. (2008), op. cit.
20 Ibid.
21 Shaw, P., Rapoport, J., & Evans, A. (2007). ADD at the far end of a continuum of normal traits. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nov. 12, 2007.
22 Hallowell, E., & Ratey, J. (2005), op. cit., p. 60.
23 Barkley, R., et al. (2008), op. cit.; Hallowell, E., & Ratey, J. (2005), op. cit.; Ratey, J. (2008). Spark: The revolutionary new science of exercise and the brain. New York: Little Brown.
24 Barkley, R., et al. (2008), op. cit.; Shaw, P., Rapoport, J., & Evans, A. (2007), op. cit.
25 Restak, R. (2003). The new brain. Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, p. 45.
26 Schwartz, E. (1994). Interrupt-driven, Wired magazine, as quoted in Restak, R. (2003), op. cit., p. 45.
27 Restak, R. (2003), op. cit., p. 48.
28 Kramer, P. (2005). Against depression. New York: Penguin.
29 Ibid.
30 Hollon, S., Jarrett, R., Nierenberg, A., Thase, M., Trivedi, M., & Rush, A. (2005). Psychotherapy and medication in the treatment of adult and geriatric depression: Which monotherapy or combined treatment? Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 66(4), 455-468.
31 Ratey, J. (2008), op. cit.
32 Rosenthal, N. (2006). Winter blues. New York: Guilford Press.
33 Ibid.
34 Ibid., p. 78.
35 Ibid.
36 Schwartz, J. M. (1996). Brain lock: Free yourself from obsessive-compulsive disorder. New York: Harper Collins.
37 Ibid.
38 Neziroglu, F., Bubrick, J., & Yaryura-Tobias, J. A. (2004). Overcoming compulsive hoarding. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications.
39 Ibid., p. 37.
40 Saxena, S., Brody, A. Maindment, K., Smith, E. Zohrabi, N., Katz, E., Barker, S., & Baxter, L. (2004). Cerebral glucose metabolism in obsessive-compulsive hoarding. American Journal of Psychiatry, June, 161, 1038-1048.
41 Saxena, S. (2007). Is compulsive hoarding a genetically and neuro-biologically discrete syndrome? American Journal of Psychiatry, 164(3), 380-384.
42 Sapolsky, R. (1994). Why zebras don’t get ulcers. New York: W. H. Freeman and Co.
43 Sapolsky, R. (1992). Stress, the aging brain, and the mechanisms of neuronal death. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
44 Kramer, P. (2005), op. cit.; Sapolsky, R. (1992), op. cit.
45 Flaherty, A. (2004). The midnight disease: The drive to write, writer’s block and the creative brain. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin.
46 Dement, W., & Vaughn, C. (2000). The promise of sleep. New York: Bantam Dell.
47 Dahl, R. E. (1999). In K. L. Wahlstrom (Ed.), Adolescent sleep needs and school starting times (pp. 29-34). Bloomington, IN: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, quoted in Dawson, P., & Guare, R. (2004), op. cit., p. 85.
48 Dement, W., & Vaughn, C. (2000), op. cit.
49 Ibid.
50 Kramer, P. (2005), op. cit.
51 Flaherty, A. (2004), op. cit., p. 147.
9. HOW YOU CAME TO BE A PROCRASTINATOR
1 Kagan, J., & Snidman, N. (2004). The long shadow of temperament. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
2 Ibid.; Cozolino, L. (2006). The neuroscience of human relationships. New York: W. W. Norton.
3 Steel, P. (2007). The nature of procrastination: A meta-analytic and theoretical review of quintessential self-regulatory failure. Psychological Bulletin , 133(1), 65-94.
4 The immigrant experience (2001). Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. Retrieved May 20, 2008, from www.nwrel.org/cnorse/booklets/immigration/4.html.
5 First in my family: A profile of first-generation college students at four-year institutions since 1971 (2007). UCLA Higher Education Research Institute. Retrieved May 20, 2008, from www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/PDFs/pubs/briefs/FirstGenResearchBrief.pdf.
6 Pally, R. (2007). The predicting brain: Unconscious repetition, conscious reflection and therapeutic change. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 88(4), 861-881, p. 861. See also Hawkins, J. (2004). On intelligence. New York: Henry Holt.
7 LeDoux, J. (1998). The emotional brain. New York: Simon and Schuster.
8 Rice, K. G., & Ashby, J. S. (2007). An efficient method for classifying perfectionists. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 54(1), 72-85.
9 Khan, M. (1964). Ego distortion, cumulative trauma, and the role of reconstruction in the analytic situation. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 45, 272-279.
10 Winnicott, D. W. (1953). Transitional objects and transitional phenomena: A study of the first not-me possession. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 34, 89-97; Bettelheim, B. (1987). A good enough parent. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
11 Tronick, E. Z., & Gianino, A. (1986). Interactive mismatch and repair: Challenges to the coping infant. Zero to Three. February, 6(3), 1-6.
12 Lewicki, P., Hill, T., & Czyzewska, M. (1992). Nonconscious acquisition of information. American Psychologist, 47, 796-801; See also Cozolino, L. (2006), op. cit.; Solms, M., & Turnbull, O. (2002). The brain and the inner world. New York: Other Press.
13 Cozolino, L. (2006), op. cit., p. 132.
14 Main, M., Kaplan, N., & Cassidy, J. (1985). Security in infancy, childhood, and adulthood: A move to the level of representation. In I. Bretherton, & E. Waters (Eds.) (1985), Growing points of attachment theory and research. Monograph of the Society for Research in Childhood Development, 50, Serial No. 209 (1-2), 66-104.
15 Ibid.
10. LOOKING AHEAD TO SUCCESS
1 Fisch, R., Weakland J., & Segal, L. (1982). The tactics of change: Doing therapy briefly. San Fransicso: Josey-Bass.
2 The top 10: The most influential therapists of the past quarter-century. (2007). Retrieved January 18, 2007, from www.psychotherapynetworker.com/index.php?category=magazine&sub_cat=articles&type=article&id=The%20Top%2010&page=6.
3 Doidge, N. (2007). The brain that changes itself. New York: Penguin Books, p. 198.
4 Goleman, D. (1998). Working with emotional intelligence. New York: Bantam Books, p. 317.
5 Ibid.
6 Eifert, G. H., & Forsyth, J. P. (2005). Acceptance and commitment therapy for anxiety disorders: A practitioner’s guide to using mindfulness, acceptance, and value-guide behavior change strategies. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, p. 153.
7 Ibid., p. 171. See also Hayes, S. (2005). Get out of your mind and into your life: The new acceptance and commitment therapy. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, pp. 153-163.
8 Siegel, D. J. (2007). The mindful brain: Reflection and attunement in the cultivation of well-being. New York: W. W. Norton.
PART TWO. OVERCOMING PROCRASTINATION
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6 Doidge, N. (2007) The brain that changes itself. New York: Penguin, p. 223-224.
7 Giroux, R. Flannery O’Connor: The complete stories. Retrieved May 20, 2008, from http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/faithfiredbylit/giroux-intro.shtml.
8 Jackson, Y. H. (Ed.). (2006). Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology. New York: Sage Publishers, p. 223.
9 Cloutterbuck, J., & Zhan, C. (2006). Ethnic elders. In K. D. Melillo, & S. C. Houde. Geropsychiatric and mental health nursing (pp. 69-81). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
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11 Eels, T. D. (1999). Psychotherapy versus medication for unipolar depression. Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research, 8, 170-173.
12 Etkin, A., Pittenger, C., Polan, H., & Kandel, E. (2005). Toward a neurobiology of psychotherapy: Basic science and clinical applications. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 17, 145-158, in N. Doidge (2007), op. cit., p. 233.
13 Doidge, N. (2007). The brain that changes itself. New York: Viking.
12. SETTING AND ACHIEVING GOALS
1 Dweck, C. S. (2006). Mindset: The new psychology of success. New York: Ballantine.
2 Doidge, N. (2007). The brain that changes itself. New York: Penguin, p. 106-107.
13. LEARNING HOW TO TELL TIME
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3 Fiore, N. (1989/2007). The now habit: A strategic program for overcoming procrastination and enjoying guilt-free play. New York: Tarcher/Putnam (1989), Penguin (2007).
4 Shunk, D. H., & Zimmerman, B. J. (2003). Self-regulation and learning. In W. M. Reynolds, & G. E. Millers (Eds.), Handbook of psychology, Vol. 7: Educational Psychology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
5 Meck, W. H. (2005). Neuropsychology of timing and time perception. Brain and Cognition, 58(1), 1-8.
6 Lakein, A. (1973), op. cit., p. 104.
7 Doidge, N. (2007). The brain that changes itself. New York: Penguin, p. 106-107.
8 Drucker, P. F. (1967/2006). The effective executive: The definitive guide to getting the right things done. New York: Harper Collins.
9 Covey, S. R. (1989/2004). The 7 habits of highly effective people: Powerful lessons in personal change. New York: Free Press.
10 Zimbardo, P., & Boyd, J. (2008). The time paradox: The new psychology of time that will change your life. New York: Free Press.
14. LEARNING TO SAY YES AND NO
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3 Ian Ayres, Professor at Yale Law School and Yale School of Management, and Dean Karlan, Assistant Professor of Economics at Yale University. (Jordan Goldberg, personal communication, April 2008.)
4 Covey, S. R. (1989/2004). The 7 habits of highly effective people: Powerful lessons in personal change. New York: Free Press.
5 Juran, J. The non-Pareto principle—mea culpa. From Quality Progress magazine, 1972. In K. S. Stephens (Ed.) (2005), Juran, quality, and a century of improvement. The Best on Quality Book Series of the International Academy for Quality, Vol. 15. pp. 185-190. Milwaukee, WI: ASQ Quality Press. Retrieved March 15, 2008, from http://management.about.com/cs/general-management/a/Pareto081202.htm.
6 Although the 80/20 rule is attributed to the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who observed in 1906 that 20 percent of the people owned 80 percent of the wealth, it was Joseph Juran, a quality management pioneer in the U.S. in the 1930s and 1940s, who recognized this as a universal principle of “the vital few and the trivial many.” Retrieved March 15, 2008, from http://management.about.com/cs/generalmanagement/a/Pareto08102.htm.
7 Blanke, G. (2009). Throw out fifty things: Clear the clutter, find your life. New York: Springboard Press.
8 Cassidy, M. (2008). Let’s take a holiday from the Net, San Jose Mercury News. July 4, 2008.
9 Restak, R. (2003). The new brain: How the modern age is rewiring your brain. Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, p. 55.
15. USING YOUR BODY TO
REDUCE PROCRASTINATION
1 Ratey, J. (2008). Spark: The revolutionary new science of exercise and the brain. New York: Little Brown.
2 Ibid., p. 14.
3 Kramer, P. (2005). Against depression. New York: Penguin.
4 Kramer, P. (2005), op. cit.; Ratey, J. (2008), op. cit.; Sapolsky, R. (1992). Stress, the aging brain, and the mechanisms of neuronal death. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; Sapolsky, R. (1994). Why zebras don’t get ulcers. New York: W. H. Freeman and Co.
5 Ratey, J. (2008), op. cit., p. 79.
6 Ibid.
7 Bravata, D., Smith-Spangler, C., Sundaram, V., Gienger, A., Lin, N., Lewis, R., Stave, C., Olkin, I., & Sirard, J. (2007). Using pedometers to increase physical activity and improve health: A systematic review. Journal of the American Medical Association, 298(19), 2296-2304.
8 Merzenich, M. (2008). Brain plasticity-based therapeutics. Conference presentation, sponsored by the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, San Francisco, CA, Sept. 20, 2008.
9 Ratey, J. (2008), op. cit., p. 245.
10 Kabat-Zinn, J. (2005). Wherever you go there you are. New York: Hyperion Books, p. 4.
11 Ibid., p. 5.
12 Siegel, D. (2007). The mindful brain: Reflection and attunement in the cultivation of well-being. New York: W. W. Norton.
13 Kabat-Zinn, J. (1990). Full catastrophe living. New York: Bantam Dell.
14 Lazar, S., Kerr, C., Wasserman, R., Gray, J., Greve, D., Treadway, M., McGarvey, M., Quinn, B., Dusek, J., Benson, H., Rauch, S., Moore, C., & Fischl, B. (2005). Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness. NeuroReport, 16, 1893-1897.
15 Kabat-Zinn, J. (1990), op. cit.; Kabat-Zinn, J. (2005), op. cit.; Siegel, D. (2007), op. cit.
16 Brach, T. (2003). Radical acceptance: embracing your life with the heart of a Buddha. New York: Bantam Books, p. 71-72.
17 Ibid., p. 51
18 Childre, D., & Rozman, D. (2005). Transforming stress. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, p. 14.
19 Ibid., p. 43-45.
20 Ibid., p. 99.
21 Ibid., p. 107.
22 Benson, H. (2000). The relaxation response. New York: Harper Collins.
23 Baker, L. (2004, February 12). Deconstructing the pet-effect on cardiovascular health. SUNY Buffalo Reporter, 35(22). Retrieved April 26, 2008, from www.Buffalo.edu.reporter.
16. TIPS FOR PROCRASTINATORS
WITH ADD AND EXECUTIVE DYSFUNCTION
1 Steel, P. (2007). The nature of procrastination: A meta-analytic and theoretical review of quintessential self-regulatory failure. Psychological Bulletin , 133(1), 65-94.
2 Dawson, P., & Guare, R. (2006). Executive skills in children and adolescents. New York: Guilford Press.
3 Barkley, R., Murphy, K., & Fischer, M. (2008). ADHD in adults: What the science says. New York: Guilford Press.
4 Barkley, R., et al. (2008), op. cit.; Hallowell, E., & Ratey, J. (2005). Delivered from distraction: Getting the most out of life with ADD. New York: Ballantine; Ratey, N. (2008). The disorganized mind. New York: St. Martin’s
Press; Sarkis, S. (2006). 10 simple solutions for dealing with adult ADD. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications.