Being Human: Diagnosis in Curative Education - Softcover

König, Karl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0880102802 ISBN 13: 9780880102803

Publisher: SteinerBooks, 1994

Synopsis

What does it mean to be human? Human development unfolds in a twofold way. On the one hand, there is an ever-more profound incarnation, or “inhabitation,” of the physical body. On the other hand, there is the increasing discrimination of the individual objects of the world.

Difficulties and obstacles along this path can lead to so-called disabilities. König’s approach to curative education allows us to see these disabilities as meaningful ways of coping with or resolving the various problems that arise in living in a physical body. From this point of view, “disabilities” are exaggerated forms of ways we all use to cope with life.

“The point is not only to see the deviations, but to see them against the mighty backdrop of a comprehensive child anthropology.” Being Human presents the outline of just such a comprehensive anthropology.

CONTENTS:

• Foreword by Michaela Glöckler
• Introduction by Cornelius Pietzner
• PART I
1. Three Ways of Diagnosing
2. Some Guiding Images in the Area of Motor Disturbances: The Lonely Individual
3. Some Guiding Images in the Area of Sensory Disturbances
4. The Problem of Right and Left
5. The World of Language
6. The Gestalt of the Child
• PART II
1. An Introduction to Convulsive Disorders
2. Different Types of Convulsive Disorders
3. Epilepsy and Hysteria
• Notes

Being Human is of value not only to those working in special education, but to anyone interested in the dynamics of incarnation and “normal” development.

About this title

About the Author:

Karl König studied medicine at Heidelberg, where he became a medical doctor in 1957 and worked for several years in the Heidelberg Institute of Physiology. In Hamburg University he trained as an internist, and in Göttingen as a psychoanalyst. From 1971 to 1981 he directed the psychotherapy department for adults in a state hospital concentrating on neuroses, borderline conditions, and psychosomatic disturbances. At the medical school of Göttingen University he was then appointed director of a department concentrating on clinical group psychotherapy and couples therapy. More recently, his scientific work has addressed anxiety syndromes and problems of technique in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. He has written or co-authored thirty-one books, which have been translated into several languages. He was president of the Göttingen psychoanalytic institute and vice president of the German Psychoanalytic Society, and is a member of the IPA.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

About this edition

• Publisher: SteinerBooks
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0880102802
• ISBN 13: 9780880102803
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156