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Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

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01-01-2008 | Book Review

Robert Fletcher, Earl Loschen, Chrissoula Stavrakiki and Michael First Kingston (eds), DM-ID, Diagnostic Manual-Intellectual Disability: A Textbook of Diagnosis of Mental Disorders in Persons with Intellectual Disability

NADD Press, NY, 552 pp, ISBN-13: 9781572561250. $96.00 (paper)

Auteur: Frank John Ninivaggi

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 1/2008

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“Reason is emotion’s slave and exists to rationalize emotional experience” (Bion 1970, p. 1). One of the most distinguished theoreticians and clinicians in the history of psychoanalysis thus launches his text, Attention and Interpretation: A Scientific Approach to Insight in Psychoanalysis and Groups. In that text, Bion attempts to rationally organize the emotional and cognitional data of human experience and its disorders into clinically useful insights. Today, almost 50 years later another laudable attempt at this aim, although in a different métier, can be found in the Diagnostic Manual-Intellectual Disabilities: A Textbook of Diagnoses of Mental Disorders in Persons with Intellectual Disabilities (DM-ID). This most recent effort to make sense out of the behaviors of persons with complex, and oftentimes undecipherable, mental functioning stands as a significant contemporary contribution to this daunting challenge. DM-ID has emerged as a guide to clinical practice, a reference work, and an educational tool. …

vorige artikel Roy Grinker, Unstrange Minds: Remaping the World of Autism

volgende artikel Understanding Brothers and Sisters on the Autism Spectrum, Dan and Julie Coulter

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Bion, W. R. (1970). Attention and interpretation: A scientific approach to insight in psychoanalysis and groups. London: Tavistock.

Luckasson, R., et al. (2001). Mental retardation, definition, classification, and supports (10th ed.). Washington, DC: American Association on Mental Retardation.

Ninivaggi, F. (2005). Borderline intellectual functioning and academic problem. In Sadock B.J., & Sadock V.A. (Eds.), Kaplan & Sadock’s comprehensive textbook of psychiatry (8th ed.). Baltimore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.

Titel: Robert Fletcher, Earl Loschen, Chrissoula Stavrakiki and Michael First Kingston (eds), DM-ID, Diagnostic Manual-Intellectual Disability: A Textbook of Diagnosis of Mental Disorders in Persons with Intellectual Disability
NADD Press, NY, 552 pp, ISBN-13: 9781572561250. $96.00 (paper)
Auteur: Frank John Ninivaggi
Publicatiedatum: 01-01-2008
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 1/2008
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-007-0490-1

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