Mental Handicap and the Human Condition by Valerie Sinason

Mental Handicap and the Human Condition by Valerie Sinason

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.

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 ClinicHer 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

Valerie Sinason is a poet, writer, child psychotherapist and adult psychoanalyst. She is Founder Director of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies and President of the Institute for Psychotherapy. She is an Honorary Consultant Psychotherapist at the University of Cape Town Child Guidance Clinic and Chair of Trustees of the First People Centre, New Bethesda, South Africa. She is a Patron of Dorset Action on Abuse (DAA), editor of 'Trauma Dissociation and Multiplicity' and co-editor of 'Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy after Child abuse'. She has published numerous articles and books, including two poetry collections. Valerie Sinason was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the ISSTD (International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation) in April 2016

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ISBN 13	9781853432026
ISBN 10	1853432024
Title	Mental Handicap and the Human Condition
Author	Valerie Sinason
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Free Association Books
Year published	2010-04-30
Number of pages	448
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