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| Title: |
Psychoanalysis And Mental Handicap (paperback) |
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1st January 1999 |
| ISBN: |
1 85343 431 0 |
| Price: |
£18.95 | $34.50 |
'Auntie, speak to me! I'm frightened because it's so dark.'
'What good will that do. You can't see me.'
'That doesn't matter; if anyone speaks, it gets light.'
It is with this quotation from Freud that Maud Mannoni began her book The Backward Child and His Mother (1972). Nearly forty years after her pioneering work was first published, these words still retain their full significance as psychoanalysts like Valerie Sinason have continued the work of extending psychoanalytic understanding to the needs of the mentally handicapped.
In 1996 twenty-five psychoanalysts from seven different countries emerged from their quiet isolation to meet for a three-day conference in Belgium to exhange ideas about psychoanalysis and handicap. In February 1997, a further two-day conference was held in Paris with the financial support of the EC Association for the Research and Training on Integration in Europe.
The result of both conferences is this ground breaking book in which a renowned international group of writers contribute to a pluralistic review of the subject from the perspectives of Freud, Klein, Bion, Winnicott, Lacan and Mannoni.
Contributors: Colette Assouly-Piquet, Paul Berry, Joost Demuynck, Johan De Goef, Olivier-Raenid Grim, Evelyn Heinemann, Cecile Herrou, Maud Mannoni, Claire Morelle, Deitmut Niedecken, Marc Pattyn, Richard Ruth, Simone Sausse-Korff, Regaine Scelles, Monique Schneider, Valerie Sinason.
This is the first theoretical and clinical reader on psychoanalysis and mental handicap. It is an excellent introudction and orientation for students and professionals and will be of interest to special education teachers, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, mental health students and parents.
Authors: Johan De Groef and Evelyn Heinemann |
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