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A powerful and inspiring examination of the connection between the potential for great talent and conditions commonly thought to be “disabilities,” revealing how the source of our struggles can be the origin of our greatest strengths.
In The Power of Different, psychiatrist and bestselling author Gail Saltz examines the latest scientific discoveries, profiles famous geniuses who have been diagnosed with all manner of brain “problems”―including learning disabilities, ADD, anxiety, Depression, Bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and Autism―and tells the stories of lay individuals to demonstrate how specific deficits in certain areas of the brain are directly associated with the potential for great talent. Saltz shows how the very conditions that cause people to experience difficulty at school, in social situations, at home, or at work, are inextricably bound to creative, disciplinary, artistic, empathetic, and cognitive abilities.
In this pioneering work, readers will find engaging scientific research and stories from historical geniuses and everyday individuals who have not only made the most of their conditions, but who have flourished because of them. They are leaning into their brain differences to:
*Identify areas of interest and expertise
*Develop work arounds
*Create the environments that best foster their talents
*Forge rewarding interpersonal relationships
Enlightening and inspiring, The Power of Different proves that the unique wiring of every brain can be a source of strength and productivity, and contributes to the richness of our world.
- Sales Rank: #804 in Books
- Published on: 2017-03-07
- Released on: 2017-03-07
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.58" h x .91" w x 6.44" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 256 pages
Review
Praise for The Power of Different“The Power of Different is a nuanced exploration of the contribution that being a little – but not too – crazy can make to creativity. A clear writer and undogmatic thinker with the expertise to evaluate existing research, Dr. Gail Saltz expertly winnows out genuine insights from the chaff of poorly designed studies and facile generalizations. An exceptionally interesting and thoughtful book.”
--Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind
“Gail Saltz strikes gold. For centuries, stigma, fear, and, above all, ignorance have prevented us from seeing what Dr. Saltz presents so clearly, concisely, and convincingly: that embedded in our so-called disabilities, disorders, and mental illnesses we find treasures of enormous value, gems that have illuminated and changed the world. As she demonstrates over and again, our world would be thousands of years behind itself were it not for the talents and originality mixed in with the chaos and confusion of the mind in distress or disarray.”
--Ned Hallowell, author of Driven to Distraction
“For generations, we have wondered how some people with mental disorders reach the heights of human creativity and invention, despite, or perhaps because of, those disorders. Now, Gail Saltz, a brilliant psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, has explored the relationship between the two and written a grippingly readable book that sheds a profound and crucial light on the nature of genius.”
--Steven Naifeh, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Jackson Pollock: An American Saga and Van Gogh: The Life
“Gail Saltz's careful research bolsters her argument that every brain is different, and that achievement has to do with harnessing what’s there more than with trying to reshape it into normality. Her insightful book examines genius and disability in considerable detail, but the stories and lessons contained within it are relevant to all human minds.”
--Andrew Solomon, New York Times bestselling author of Far From the Tree
About the Author
A Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at The New York Presbyterian Hospital/ Weill-Cornell School of Medicine, Dr. Gail Saltz is a psychiatrist, columnist, bestselling author, television commentator, and magazine contributor. She has been featured in print and on television in places like The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dateline, Fox News, Anderson Cooper, Today Show, Good Morning America, Parade, Redbook, Women’s Day, the New York Times, and others. She lives in New York with her family.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
There’s something uniquely elegant about this book and I greatly hope others will find the same inspiration I did.
By Tara
I truly loved this book. As a mother of 2 daughters on the Autism Spectrum I was particularly interested in the last chapter which dealt specifically with this. The quotes from adults on the spectrum who talked about things from their perspective, what they felt, what they were thinking, etc because so many times I would nearly jump from excitement upon finding something that seemed to explain more fully what my children are currently going through. The information in this book is extraordinary and life changing.
The connection between intellectual brightness and social/behavioral difficulty was very enlightening as that is a problem I’m currently having with my 7 yr old who is showing an affinity for science and math. Due to her social skills not being on par with others her age we’ve had quite a bit of difficulty in getting people to take her interests and intelligence seriously. The sentence, “…they failed to see that their labeling of Ethan had also become limiting” could be the mantra for so many children like mine.
This book should be required reading for every caregiver, educator, doctor, etc who has anything to do with someone who has a special gift. It’s long been believed that creativity and high intelligence has a high correlation with elements of mental illness but it’s more than possible what one believes is an illness is just a misunderstood gift, this book rips apart those lines and belief systems.
Gail Saltz is my new hero. She has written a book that will change how we view so many things and thankfully she wrote it in a way that makes the topics interesting and easy to read. I could not put this down, I even had to go back and reread sections to make notes so I could share what I’ve learned with my husband.
Reading this now when we just had a huge Twitter campaign on ridding Mental Illness of its stigma seemed even more apropos. Especially as Saltz strives so hard but with great ease to bring some hope and beauty in an otherwise complex and confusing subject. There’s something uniquely elegant about this book and I greatly hope others will find the same inspiration I did.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
The book does walk a fine and contentious line on the topic of semantics
By Jeffrey Hatcher
People having various neurological or psychiatric disorders frequently enrich society by virtue of having a distinctly different perspective on life due to nature's allotments. In The Power of Different, Dr. Gail Saltz lays out various case studies in which altered abilities in some mental functions give way to enhanced abilities in others. Saltz makes a successful bid to sensitize her readers to the complexity of human thought and capability. She also demonstrates the potential costs incurred by society if it is dismissive of people whose cognitive abilities or tendencies lay away from the 'norm'. The Power of Different could not appear more timely in America for the waning of social sophistication and compassion in our present-day government.
"Mental illness" as a technical label has little more value than "somatic / bodily illness" for the purposes of description and classification. Yet we see it used exclusively time and again. Saltz rectifies this deficiency by presenting a clearer description of several forms - dyslexia, ADD, anxiety disorders, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and autism (she categorizes them in a more sophisticated manner that also includes more disorders than I refer to here). She allocates a chapter for each disorder, making it concise and readable to anyone. She also points out that disorders can and do overlap as would be expected for a networked bodily organ. Her chapters are grouped by symptomatology. She also makes the key point that psychiatric counseling is about the treatment of symptoms - classifying conditions is done for insurance purposes rather than treament purposes.
Within each chapter, Saltz explores creative potentials that can be enhanced by the condition(s) described. She also stimulates productive thought as she discusses "work arounds". She proposes behavioral changes that people, or their associates, can make to cope with differences in abilities and thus enhance the strengths which people possess as a result of these differences.
The book does walk a fine and contentious line on the topic of semantics. What does one call a medical condition that comes about by an aberrant developmental condition and/or genetics and which directly impacts cognitive function? What social repercussions do labels have? The book occasionally comes across as muddled regarding these questions - muddled for its realism primarily but not exclusively.
For example, she refers to dyslexia as a 'difference' as opposed to a disorder. Referring to a condition simply as a 'difference' puts it at risk for lowered medical research and might jeopardize insurance coverage. Saltz discusses dyslexia as a 'learning difference' and she gives the reader a lucid description of how someone with the condition is predisposed to think when reading. But she also tells of some people describing their experience as seeing letters "moving or vibrating on a page." Vibrating letters are a perceptual pathology not simply a difference. Dyslexia frequently afflicts a person concurrently (i.e. comorbidly) with other difficulties, such as dyspraxia which she explains is a difficulty in articulating sounds due to a kind of neuromuscular impairment.
The reader needs to bear in mind that Saltz demonstrates the breadth of the human condition more than reasonable expectations for the average individual with a disorder. Her sampling is openly and also appropriately biased:
I have interviewed multiple successful and supremely creative individuals with brain differences for this book, and in each case I have asked them if, given the choice, they would eliminate their brain difference. To a person - and no matter how much pain their difference has caused them - they said that they would not. Each of my interviewees couldn't imagine separating their strengths from their weaknesses.
This kind of sampling is far from interviewing a person with a condition at random. She does not refer to people who lack supreme creativity. Therefore, using the term "brain differences", as opposed to "disabilities" or "disorders" runs a danger of overcompensating for historically negative views of some people. She points out her focus on exceptional people repeatedly. However, when a reader fails to attend to her disclaimers, they might lose sight of the possibility that not-so-creative persons might find themselves in misery. The fact that her interviewees would retain their conditions could reflect their status as exceptional people more than their status as people with a recognized medical issue. Nevertheless, Saltz carefully avoids romanticizing any condition. As I said, she gives an appropriately biased picture, as one of her intentions is to highlight potential within people having a wide diversity of cognitive abilities. In America, at least, her agenda is imperative.
I have my own biases as I write this critique. I have temporal lobe epilepsy. The history of the disease includes a pendulous swing in status within the psychiatric community, and this volatile status can have high costs for the patient. Decades ago, epilepsy was front and center among mental illnesses. The illness was oddly both comorbid with and caused by seizures. When anticonvulsant drugs became highly effective at reducing or eliminating outward seizures, the disease mysteriously became non-mental. Yet, I can pick out various mental symptoms from multiple disorders that Saltz describes and show them to also be comorbid with temporal lobe epilepsy. Saltz quotes a young woman with dyslexia, "I do better with abstract concepts and ideas as opposed to solid things that require huge amounts of knowledge stored." I have expressed exactly the same thoughts about epilepsy (in an earlier published work) as the woman quoted. I also appreciate points that Saltz makes regarding attentional difficulties and creativity. Saltz emphasizes the power of disinhibited thoughts - the amnesia with which I am too familiar has similar powers (when you cynically assume that you'll be wrong most of the time, you cannot be bothered to intellectually police yourself). Epileptic activity can gyrate a person's focus. Paradoxically, it can make a person hyperfocused as well. Epilepsy, however, is very pathological, frequently melodramatic, and even if it did bring me great success and creativity, I would never pause a moment to be rid of it. But then again, I am not supremely creative either.
Psychiatrists could be routinely treating epilepsy symptoms - as Saltz points out, treating symptoms is what psychiatrists are here to do. Unfortunately, treating the psychiatric symptoms by doctors and receiving reasonable accomodation in the work place has been greatly complicated by the "purging" of the mental illness out of the disease. Today, sufferers are too often perceived as being in a 100% normal mental state when not seizing. That misperception creates social problems. Thus, semantics matter greatly, and the reader needs to critically examine any comment which suggests that a change in terminology is being made for any reason other than a coldly biological one. Such a comment may be very wise, but it needs introspection before quick acceptance. Having a mental disorder can incur stigmatization, but falsely not having one precludes the best care. For that reason, my own attitude is to work to purge the stigma from terms like "disability" or "mental illness" rather than change or discard the terms themselves. Despite our disagreement, Saltz's highlighting of the refinements of other abilities, brought about because of disorders, benefits people with either viewpoint. A person optimally focused on abstract thoughts can make great contributions to an intellectual endeavor, just as Saltz points out.
Saltz tackles supremely complicated issues, facilitating finding bones of contention. However, what Saltz accomplishes with her writing overshadows the points of contention that I raise. Of numerous accomplishments, she a) humanizes mental challenges in a systematic and comprehensive manner; b) provides a text-book knowledgebase that fosters empathy as it informs; and c) poignantly lays in evidence what society stands to lose when we become insensitive to the human potential in anyone.
The Power of Different needs to be in every college library.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Inspiring and Encouraging
By Amazon Customer
So grateful that Dr. Gail Saltz has written such an inspirational book to remind us that every brain, despite any disability or preexisting condition, has the power to make a lasting impact on the world.
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