Mental Handicap and the Human Condition: New Approaches from the Tavistock - Softcover

Sinason, Valerie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853431761 ISBN 13: 9781853431760

Publisher: Free Association Books, 1992

Synopsis

What is the sense in 'stupidity'? This book is not only about the people officially and bureaucratically designated mentally handicapped, but also about how all of us suffer from the limitations and self-limitations which can be discerned from clinical work on the inner world of those so designated. An innovative and moving work, which includes a wealth of clinical material.

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Review:

'A seminal and ground breaking book' -- Tavistock Gazette

'An excellent window into the origins, vitality, and variety of (the) tradition...absorbing and stimulating.' -- International Review of Psycho-Analysis

'This book is remarkable in helping us understand the suffering and experience of the handicapped.' -- Australian Journal of Psychotherapy

'This is a book of great interest to anybody who works, in whatever capacity, in the field of mental handicap, but also to psychotherapists and psychoanalysts.' -- International Journal of Psycho-Analysis

About this edition

• Publisher: Free Association Books
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1853431761
• ISBN 13: 9781853431760
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 304