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# Hope for the Violently Aggressive Child: New Diagnoses and Treatments that Work Paperback – January 7, 2014

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## Customer Reviews

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    testimonial for this book
  

*by S***N on Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2012*

This book is confirmation of the incredible success that my daughter Liesl, who has high-functioning autism, has experienced with the effectiveness of the medications prescribed by Dr. Ralph Ankenman over a span of nearly 20 years.  When my husband and I first took Liesl to see Dr. Ankenman in March 1993, she was nine years old.  She was having adrenaline rages on a regular basis, characterized by pinching, scratching, biting, hitting, kicking, spitting, throwing things and breaking things.  Physical restraint was usually required.  Today, at 28 years old, Liesl enjoys paid employment, singing in our church choir and participating in numerous community and social activities.  Adrenaline rages are a thing of the past thanks to Dr. Ankenman's medication regimen.  Beta blockers, as mentioned in Dr. Ankenman's book, have been major players in dealing with Liesl's adrenaline rages.  However, Demser (generic name:  metyrosine; antipsychotic; noradrenalin and dopamine depleter), although not a beta blocker, has been a key component--if not the key component for Liesl--in addressing Liesl's adrenaline rages, as there was a period of time when Liesl was not on a beta blocker.  Last summer, when Demser became unavailable due to a recall, we had a forced opportunity to monitor Liesl's behavior on lower doses and then ultimately, when available once more, we did a trial of taking her off it altogether to see how she would do.  Liesl's behavior was okay for nearly six weeks, but then she crashed, having two major meltdowns in one evening, something that had never happened before.  Back on Demser the day after the meltdowns, she did fine and has been on it successfully to this day.  I am well aware that the information in Dr. Ankenman's book is "outside the box" thinking (his use of Risperdal in the 90s was also "outside the box" at that time), but I also know that what he knows works.  Speaking professionally as an autism consultant, I have never referred a client to Dr. Ankenman who didn't show improvement after having seen him.  As a parent, I'm not sure my daughter could have continued living in our home had it not been for Dr. Ankenman.  Dr. Ankenman's book, Hope for the Violently Aggressive Child:  New Diagnoses and Treatments that Work is the wish come true for me to have a way to share the research that Dr. Ankenman has done so that other families may not have to go through the difficult times we experienced before connecting with him.  Thank you, Dr. Ankenman, for changing our lives and giving Liesl the opportunity to realize her potential for a stable, happy and productive life!

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    Extreme violent rages stopped- this protocol worked
  

*by J***I on Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2020*

This book helped us address my 7 yo sons sudden raging episodes (he damaged property, self harm, eloping) - extreme behaviors. He is very intelligent, autistic with ADHD, anxiety, Developmental Coordination disorder. He became a loose cannon.The author describes the child’s symptoms with a clear check off list and discusses pharmaceutical meds that work on the adrenergic pathways.  Our MAPS pediatrician was open to it and we started at 10mg BID, but my son felt weird, so we cut it down to half of the recommended dose - Propranolol 5mg twice a day has shown great results.Along with counseling & Oxytocin homeopathic pellets given by our pediatrician.Also, during this time he was diagnosed with Celiac disease, depleted- very low Vit C & Clostridia overgrowth which releases toxic metabolites to the brain.  We began a 100% gluten free/dairy free diet and added Supplements.My kid looked like he was possessed while in these rages.Now- All is good & calm now for almost 6 weeks.

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    Buy this book!!
  

*by M***R on Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2017*

I feel like this book was an answer to our prayers. We were at a place where we no longer believed our 10 year old son could live at home with us. He was violent, dangerous, and full of rage. At other times, he was so loving, but we have always believed he had a heightened fight or flight response. After trying many psych meds with limited results, we came across this book. It described our son exactly. It took at few adjustments to find the medication that worked for him, but we have a new child who says himself he is so much happier now. If you are in a similar situation, this book is worth a read. FYI, It is difficult to get psychiatrists to prescribe the meds as they aren’t used to this treatment protocol.  We finally had luck with our pediatrician after he agreed to read the book.

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