Smart But Stuck / OUT OF PRINT: What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Learning Disabilities and Imprisoned Intelligence

Uncover the powerful potential that learning disabilities can conceal!Having a learning disability (LD) can be lonely, frightening, and frustrating. The available information is sparse, technically oriented, and resolutely uninformative on how it feels to have an LD. Smart But Stuck changes all that. The first book on the emotional aspects of having an LD, it offers twenty case studies and other research to help you see that you are not alone. This groundbreaking 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 helps those who struggle with learning disabilities (and the people who help them) build self-esteem, face LD obstacles, bypass weaknesses, and enhance strengths.Smart But Stuck elaborates on new research about imprisoned intelligence and the emotional consequences of learning disabilities, enabling readers to: understand what it's like growing up being smart but feeling stupid discover how shame influences the learning process understand what happens when smart people grow up suffering from learning gaps learn how to find a therapist and what to expect in treatment create a successful, productive life and even use their learning disabilities to their own advantageSmart But Stuck integrates a vast amount of research and presents it in an understandable way to help people gain their freedom from imprisoned intelligence. In Smart But Stuck, people with LDs will find effective methods to help themselves unlock their full potential, while therapists, teachers, and family members will find new ways to understand and help individuals with LDs.

Table of Contents:
Contents Series Editor's Comments Foreword (Joe Palombo) Acknowledgments Introduction: Why Does Imprisoned Intelligence Happen? Section I: What is the Problem? 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 Section II: Possible Solutions 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. Treatment: A Chapter for Therapists and Interested People Introduction Recognition: Helping People Become Aware Integration Conclusions Chapter 10. Some Final Observations About Our Schools Section III: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives 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 Theory: A Theoretical Perspective Introduction The Self: What Is It? Self-Cohesion: Nurturance and Sustenance Self-Protection Fragmentation of the Self Chapter 13. Connecting, Self- Psychology, Shame, 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 Chapter 14. Conclusions Referral Sources Bibliography Index Reference Notes Included