The Clinic of Disability

Psychoanalytical Approaches
Herausgeber: Sausse, Simone Korff; Scelles, Regine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on the clinical treatment of disability from French researchers in the fields of psychology, anthropology, psychiatry, and philosophy. It provides English-speaking readers with an insight into the way French authors raise the relevant issues and implement innovative practices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9781782204459
• ISBN-10: 1782204458
• Artikelnr.: 45059548

Autorenporträt

Korff Sausse, Simone

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Virility, masculine identity, and disability
The traumatic effects of encountering disability: the bond and psychic transmission put to the test
Cultural interpretation of disability
Prediction, disability, and genetics
The psychoanalytical approach to disability
The normality of the abnormal: disability, norms, and normality
The enigma of disability: talking about it with children, listening to them, letting them talk to each other
Bodies lost and bodies gained: the major periods in the history of disability
Prenatal diagnosis and handicap
Your child is a vegetable! Ethical requirements for all clinical practices in dealing with severe disability
Adolescence: psychic process or a mere stage in biology?