Mental Handicap and the Human Condition: An Analytic Approach to Intellectual Disability (Revised Edition) - Softcover

Sinason, Valerie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853432024 ISBN 13: 9781853432026

Publisher: Free Association Books, 2010

Synopsis

People with severe and profound intellectual disabilities should have the opportunity to receive psychoanalytic psychotherapy to deal with their emotional suffering. However, their needs are not always considered. This book is not only about the people officially designated intellectually disabled, but it is also about the ways in which all of us suffer from the limitations which can be discerned from clinical work on the inner world of these individuals. This book provides detailed case accounts that show the ups and downs of the therapeutic process, particularly when dealing with these handicapped individuals. Based on more than 30 years' of practice in the field, this stimulating, innovative, and very moving revised edition examines questions of loss, bereavement, sexual abuse, and the process and meaning of thinking. Many people wondered what actually happened in a therapy session. This landmark book was one of the first to provide verbatim accounts of therapy sessions.

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Review:

Few psychoanalysts or psychoanalytical psychotherapists have treated more than one or two patients with a mental handicap, with notable exception of people such as Valerie Sinason at the Tavistock Clinic. Her remarkable book, with its detailed case histories, highlights the problems we all have in overcoming internal or external handicap conditions and processes. For anyone working in or interested in the field, this book is required reading. Joseph Sandler, Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis, University College, London

About this edition

• Publisher: Free Association Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1853432024
• ISBN 13: 9781853432026
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 448