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Smart but stuck: emotional aspects of learning disabilities and imprisoned intelligence
- Author:
- ORENSTEIN Myrna
- Publisher:
- Haworth Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 228p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Binghamton, NY
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
This book is intended for psychotherapists, social workers, educators, and combines research in twenty case studies. The book discusses why and how these individuals with learning disabilities are misunderstood and how shame and fear can lead to an imprisoned intelligence. Examining learning gaps in children and adults, the book seeks to recognize learning strengths and weaknesses and to face the challenge of successfully coping with them, and helping clients to overcome them.
The emotional impact of related cognitive failure on the evolving sense of self and Kohut's tension arc
- Authors:
- ORENSTEIN Myrna, LEVIN Fred
- Journal article citation:
- Psychoanalytic Social Work, 9(1), 2002, pp.27-43.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Using the psychological sense of self and Kohut's tension arc, this article suggests that theoretical modifications are necessary to understand and therapeutically work with patients with learning difficulties. Specific practical suggestions are made about how to help individuals who struggle with these differences in psycho-biological loading.