TY - JOUR
AU - Buxbaum, Edith
AB - THE PARENTS' ROLE IN THE ETIOLOGY OF LEARNING DISABILITIES EDITH BUXBAUM, PH.D. (Seattle) In the course of working with school-age children who suffered from learning difficulties of varying degrees, we had the opportunity of studying not only their relations to their parents but also their parents' relations to them. There are only a few references to the parents' active and continued participation in their children's learn­ ing difficulties in the psychoanalytic literature. Robert Koff, review­ ing the psychoanalytic literature on a panel on "Learning Difficul­ ties in Childhood" (1961), summed it up in the following way: It seemed to me that the greatest agreement and understanding has been in the areas of the content of the fantasies of people having a disorder of learning. The nature of the conflicts, the dynamic tendencies and countertendencies, are most clearly de­ scribed. Starting with Freud's concept of inhibition of function, the id-ego-superego conflicts are elaborated and related to in­ stinctual development on oral, anal, phallic, and genital levels. Regressions to early types of mental operations are described. The next point of view is the consideration of the nature of the ego itself, especially the quality or mode of the energy util­ ized 
TI - The Parents' Role in the Etiology of Learning Disabilities
JF - The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child
DO - 10.1080/00797308.1964.11822877
DA - 1964-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/the-parents-apos-role-in-the-etiology-of-learning-disabilities-bh6zu0A5Kc
SP - 421
EP - 447
VL - 19
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -