Introduction: Learning disability, murder and phantasm / Mario Erdheim -- 'Learning Disability' as an institution and the forgotten human dimension -- The interface between institution and fate. Diagnosis as a Trojan horse: guilt-exonerating but equally a handicapping label -- The process of developing learning disabilities -- The enactment of soul murder -- From anxiety to technological treatment strategies -- Attempts at breaking out -- A child without behavioural difficulties -- Possessed by the devil -- The infantocidal introject -- Epilogue: Solidarity
Summary
First published in German in 1980s and published here in English for the first time, this brave and provocative book was one of the first to attempt to understand learning disabilities in terms of psychoanalysis and sociopsychology
Notes
Translated by Andrew Weller
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-246) and index
