Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): a social problem?

Abstract

Throughout the medical history, the setting and the way to confirm a diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) culminated in a questionable and excessive medicalization of scholarship children. This medicalization of life in the scholar environment is held together with a historical and social process of standardization imposed by biopolitics, and consequently an increase of diagnoses to improve student achievement. When Christoph Türcke talked about the imagery shocks helps to understand the ADHD, for him the shock of images presented by audiovisual apparatus gives an aesthetic fascination by providing always new images, establishing a mental space in excessive attention regime. New patterns of socialization will be settling in what can be called a subjective mutation linked to images and therefore medicalized. Anyway, ADHD is in that space where the child who has attention deficit is the child of the current culture, called high-tech culture where the symptoms of the disorder belong to contemporary society.