Smart but Stuck : Emotional Aspects of Learning Disabilities and Imprisoned Intelligence

Uncover the powerful potential that learning disabilities can conceal!Smart But Stuck: Emotional Aspects of Learning Disabilities and Imprisoned Intelligence, Revised Edition is for individuals with the problem, their families, friends, and teachers. It is also for psychotherapists, educators, school social workers, medical personnel, people dealing with prisons, etc. It helps those who struggle with learning disabilities (and the people who help them) build self esteem, face LD obstacles, bypass weaknesses, and enhance strengths. Combining research and twenty case studies, this important book discusses why and how intelligent individuals with learning disabilities are misunderstood and how shame and fear can lead to imprisoned intelligence. Smart But Stuck elaborates on new research about imprisoned intelligence and the emotional consequences of learning disabilities, enabling you to:

• understand what it's like growing up being smart but feeling stupid
• understand what happens when smart people grow up suffering from learning gaps
• understand the connection between self-development and frustrated potential
• understand the emotional fallout caused by imprisoned intelligence
• recognize clues pointing to possible learning disabilities and what to do about it
• read a historical review to see how learning disabilities were handled in the past
• learn how self-psychological theory can explain imprisoned intelligence
• learn how constructive and destructive shame influence learning
• learn how to find a therapist and what to expect in treatment
• learn how to live with learning disabilities for a successful, productive life and even use your learning disability to your advantage

Smart But Stuck integrates a vast amount of research and presents it in an understandable way so you can help people gain their freedom from imprisoned intelligence, or gain this freedom for yourself. With Smart But Stuck, you will find effective methods to help individuals with learning disabilities unlock their full potential.

• Series Editor's Comments
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Why Does Imprisoned Intelligence Happen?
• SECTION 1: WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT LEARNING DISABILITIES AND IMPRISONED INTELLIGENCE
• Chapter 1. Imprisoned Intelligence: How Does It Happen
• True Grit
• What Sort of People have Undiagnosed Learning Disabilities?
• Understanding Undiagnosed Learning Disabilities
• Information About the Research
• Some Reflections
• Chapter 2. A Brief Introduction to Shame
• Chapter 3. Something Is Wrong with Me: A Chasm in Learning
• Bewilderment
• The Chasm
• Struggle: Impasse and Bypass
• Resignation
• Chapter 4. Discovery: The Diagnosis
• Awakenings
• The Test: Pleasure
• The Test: Pain
• The Aftermath: Making Sense
• Chapter 5. Learning to Live with It: After the Diagnosis
• Facing the Music
• Grief: It's Here to Stay
• Identifying Helpers and Hinderers
• Avoiding Pitfalls
• Taking It In
• Chapter 6. New Reflections: A Different Mirror
• Personal Definitions
• Acceptance
• Personal History Reinterpreted
• Personal Perspectives
• Chapter 7. Fulfilling Potential: Bootstrapping
• Facing the Problem
• Facing the Chasm: The Biggest Challenge
• Finding Support
• Finding Appropriate Professional Help
• Chapter 8. Psychotherapy: A Lantern for the Darkness
• Is Psychotherapy Necessary?
• What Can Be Expected from Psychotherapy?
• Things Learned in Therapy
• Chapter 9. Conclusions
• SECTION II: PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC, HISTORICAL, AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
• Chapter 10. Treatment: A Chapter for Therapists and Interested People
• Introduction
• Recognition: Helping People Become Aware
• Integration
• Conclusions
• Chapter 11. Historical Review
• Why LD is So Difficult to Spot
• Categories of Symptoms
• Life Span Development
• More to Be Learned
• Emotional Fallout: Frustration
• Emotional Fallout: Trauma
• Chapter 12. Self Psychology and Imprisoned Intelligence
• Learning and Imprisoned Intelligence
• The Impact of Imprisoned Intelligence on the Self and Selfobjects
• The Impact of Imprisoned Intelligence on Development
• Imprisoned Intelligence and Deficits
• Imprisoned Intelligence, Shame, and Fragmentation: The Chasm
• Imprisoned Intelligence and Emotional Distancing: Disavowal
• Conclusions
• Referral Sources
• Recommended Reading
• Bibliography
• Index
• Reference Notes Included