A child and adult psychotherapist who helped pioneer disability work at the Tavistock Clinic for nearly 20 years, Sinason updates her 1992 guide, incorporating new clinical material to support
results based on abiding human relationships. Most of the new material is additional evidence for the effectiveness of psychological treatment for what is variously called mental handicap,
learning difficulty, and intellectual disability. Her background section covers the sense in stupidity, euphemisms and abuse, and a short mythical and psychoanalytical history. Case studies
follow, among them the man who was losing his brain, the scribe function and child development, male and female sexuality, dissociation and disability, and group psychotherapy and intellectual
disability. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
