Discourse of ADHD

Mary Horton-Salway is a member of the British Psychological Society, UK, and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, specialising in social psychology and the discourse of health, illness and disability, ME and ADHD.Alison Davies is a member of the British Psychological Society, UK, and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She is Associate Lecturer at The Open University, and also works as an academic consultant in higher education and as a counselling psychotherapist.

• Chapter 1: Introduction; Mary Horton-Salway and Alison Davies.- Chapter 2: Mapping the Discourses of ADHD: The Historical Legacy; Alison Davies.- Chapter 3: Media Representations of ADHD; Mary Horton-Salway.- Chapter 4: ‘Normal Rules of Parenting Don’t Apply’: ADHD, maternal accountability and Mother Identities; Alison Davies.- Chapter 5: ‘Just an Active Boy’: Intersecting Discourses of ADHD, Masculinity and Father Identities; Alison Davies.- Chapter 6: Voices of Experience: Narrative Lives and Selves; Mary Horton-Salway.- Chapter 7: ‘ADHD as the Product of Discourse’; Mary Horton-Salway.