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2014 by Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, N.D., M.S.W. and Robert Ullman, N.D. Previously published by Prima Publishing, Rockville, CA, 1999, and the first revised edition by Picnic Point Press, Edmonds, Washington, 2005, and also by Picnic Point Press, the first electronic edition, 2014.

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This book is intended for educational purposes only. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, or give medical advice for specific conditions, or in any way to replace the services of a qualified medical practitioner.

The cases in this book are true stories from the authors clinical practice. The names of the patients have been changed to protect confidentiality. Any names matching or resembling those of real people are coincidental and unintentional.

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To parents everywhere who are trying to give their children a healthy, loving start. And to kids everywhere, who deep down are doing their best to grow up into healthy adults, despite a not always ideal environment.

West Paducah, Kentucky; Jonesboro, Arkansas; Springfield, Oregon; Littleton, Colorado. Kids are killing kids in schools across the nation. What drives children to commit such violent, unthinkable acts of murderous rage? The specter of this question haunts the public consciousness of America and the private thoughts of parents who send their children to school each day.

Psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health counselors, public policy advocates, and elected officials argue that easy access to firearms, video and TV violence, parental neglect, poor mental health, and a decline in civility and morals are the primary causes of the unthinkable: children who end up as cold-blooded, calculating murderers. Kids killing kidsthis tragic, late twentieth century American phenomenon, is a complex problem that requires complex solutions.

While good public policy can begin to stem the tide of the broader underpinnings of our toxic culture of violence, what hope do parents of aggressive and violent children have for healing their children and leading normal lives? These rageaholic children can suffer from any number of traumas including developmental disorders, central nervous system injuries, family violence and abuse, or parents who may have abused drugs or alcohol. They may be diagnosed by psychiatrists and other physicians as suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), or conduct disorder (CD).

Children carrying these diagnoses exhibit their distress differently. Despite the diversity of behavioral presentations, the conventional approach reduces the problem down to a set of single diagnoses typically treated with a limited number of drugs. Practitioners of conventional medicine use stimulant, antidepressant, anticonvulsant, anti-anxiety, antipsychotic, and a few other drugs to treat aggressive and antisocial behavior in hopes that it will diminish or disappear, often without uncovering the underlying cause of the problem.

Since there is no single medication recommended for the treatment of aggressive behavior, multiple medications have been used clinically to target childhood aggression. This means that if your child has been diagnosed with ADHD, ODD, or CD, he or she may receive one or more potentially toxic drugs with the possibility of severe side effects and drug interactions.

Before you consider using medications to treat you aggressive child, please read this book! The authors, Drs. Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman and Robert Ullman, present a safe and effective alternative to the conventional approach for treating oppositional, aggressive, and defiant children. The Ullmans share their experience in treating over 3,000 children with behavioral and learning problems with homeopathy, often with dramatic success. Homeopathy has been safely and effectively utilized in countries throughout the world for over 200 years. The homeopathic approach treats each patient individually and promotes healing and balance by stimulating the unique adaptive mechanisms within each person. The outcome of the homeopathic course of treatment can improve the function of patients diagnosed with ADHD, ODD, or CD, to the point where prescription drugs are often no longer necessary.

The case studies in this book speak for themselves. Evidence is also accumulating from clinical research studies to support the claims of homeopathy. However more work needs to be done in this area and the evidence presented by these two pioneers in the field of homeopathy will surely promote increased discussion about the benefits of homeopathic medicine in treating defiant, aggressive, and violent children.

Many conventional doctors remain skeptical about the claims of homeopathy. If you are a parent who needs help with a child similar to those presented in this book, make your own judgments about the safety and effectiveness of homeopathy based on the experience of the Ullmans. Rage-Free Kids is a must read for any parent who is facing the difficult decision of whether or not to medicate his or her aggressive or violent child.

Bruce Gryniewski, BS, MA, Ph.D. (cand.)

Executive Director

The Cease Fire Foundation of Washington

We thank the many children whom we have had the opportunity to treat and their parents for trusting us to do so. Our gratitude to Samuel Hahnemann, for having the brilliance and foresight to develop the science and art of homeopathy, and to all the homeopathic masters who have taught us what we know. Special appreciation to Nancy Bond for her beautiful cover design and assistance with editing, and to Bruce Gryniewski of Washington Cease Fire, for sharing our excitement about this book and for writing the compelling foreword.

We have entered a new millennium. The technological advances that we have made over the past century, and even the past decade, are mind-boggling. One would think that, as we advance as a human race, we would also make tremendous strides in learning to live together in peace that we could master the art of cooperative coexistence in families, communities, and nations; ensure safety and protection for our children; and mend our differences and move beyond them to create a shared vision of a happy and healthy future for all of us. But this is not yet the case. Despite all of the hurdles we have overcome as a global community, we have not learned to eradicate violence. In fact, in many ways the world seems a more dangerous place than it was in our parents or grandparents generations.

In our personal search for peace and harmony, we chose to practice in a safe, quiet, and beautiful small town just north of Seattle. It is a place where folks can walk around any time of the day or night and feel relatively assured that no harm will come to them. Imagine our surprise when we read the following report in our local newspaper: