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

by Valerie Sinason

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853432024
• ISBN13: 9781853432026
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Free Association Books
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.4"