Mental Handicap and the Human Condition: New Approaches from the Tavistock [Paperback]

'An excellent window into the origins, vitality, and variety of (the) tradition...absorbing and stimulating.'

'A seminal and ground breaking book'

'This book is remarkable in helping us understand the suffering and experience of the handicapped.'

'This is a book of great interest to anybody who works, in whatever capacity, in the field of mental handicap, but also to psychotherapists and psychoanalysts.'

What is the sense in 'stupidity'? This book is not only about the people officially and bureaucratically designated mentally handicapped, but also about how all of us suffer from the limitations and self-limitations which can be discerned from clinical work on the inner world of those so designated. An innovative and moving work, which includes a wealth of clinical material.