Mental handicap or learning disability

Secondary Handicap & Learning Disability: A Component Analysis

The term ‘secondary handicap’ is frequently encountered in services for people with disabilities. The term has its origins in Freud’s original description of secondary gain (Freud, 1901), and Winnicott’s description of the ‘false self’ (Winnicott, 1965). Since the late 1980s, however, the term has largely been associated with the psychoanalytic writings of Valerie Sinason at the Tavistock Centr...

Porphyrias and Mental Handicap

substances, the main one of which he called haematoporphyrin (porphurouspurple). Three years later Schultz published the first case of porphyria. In 1911 Glinther classified the diseases of porphyrin metabolism from published cases, including his own. Since then, numerous papers have been published and various classifications put forward. The latest classification is that from Brodie et al,2 in...

Mental handicap and the mental health act.

Social Competence and Mental Handicap

^ailliere Tindall and Russell, 45s. the author points out, probably ^ore time and energy have been sPent over the past 100 years in e*ploring why some individuals are ^ntally defective than in investigating their training and treatment, 'his book provides a critical review present methods of educating training the mentally handi

Prevention of mental handicap in developing countries.

The Commonwealth Association for Mental Handicap and Developmental Disabilities held a workshop on 'Prevention of mental handicap-what is possible in developing countries?' in Bombay in March 1985. The workshop was attended by 40 invited participants from many parts of the world, both from developed and developing countries. During the two days various prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal problem...