TY - JOUR
AU - Lipton, Edgar L.
AB - BOOK NOTICES COhlPARATIVE STUDIFS OF BLIND AND INSIGHTS FROM THE BLIND; SIGHTED INFANTS. By Selma Fraiberg with the collaboration of Louis Fraiberg. New York: Basic Books, 1977, 288 pp. Professor Selma Fraiberg is one of our foremost investigators of the ego development of blind children. She has designed and demon- strated the best program of intervention for the mental health of blind infants that we know. She is, additionally, one of psycho- analysis’ most graceful writers. Her early book, The Magic Years, is widely used in teaching concepts of child development because of its soundness, clarity, and wisdom. It is therefore a special treat to have now Insights from the Blind; Comparative Studies of Blind and Sighted Infants written with the overall collaboration of Louis Fraiberg and with the individual collaboration of co-authors of particular chapters, David Freedman, Barry L. Siegel, Ralph Gib- son, and Edna Adelson. This is a summary of her fifteen years of work with blind infants and their parents. After a summary of observations and a review of the salient literature, she notes that when she began, in 1960, no detailed longitudinal studies of blind babies existed. Mrs. Fraiberg’s first study was of a five-month-old 
TI - Insights From the Blind; Comparative Studies of Blind and Sighted Infants
JF - Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
DO - 10.1177/000306517902700118
DA - 1979-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/insights-from-the-blind-comparative-studies-of-blind-and-sighted-3lB2xCvKIW
SP - 273
EP - 276
VL - 27
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -