Smart But Stuck: How Resilience Frees Imprisoned Intelligence from Lea

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Learn how smart people with learning gaps struggle, survive, and achieve Smart But Stuck, Second Edition is an updated look at how smart people with learning gaps can not only overcome them, but become successful in learning—and life. The new edition of this classic explores the emotional aspects of learning disabilities and imprisoned intelligence, showing how—and why—smart people with learning... Read more

Learn how smart people with learning gaps struggle, survive, and achieve

Smart But Stuck, Second Edition is an updated look at how smart people with learning gaps can not only overcome them, but become successful in learning—and life. The new edition of this classic explores the emotional aspects of learning disabilities and imprisoned intelligence, showing how—and why—smart people with learning disabilities are resilient in getting help in order to struggle, survive, and achieve. The book also includes new material on the relationship between learning disabilities and neuroscience and a new foreword by Joseph Palombo, Founding Dean of the Institute for Clinical Social Work in Chicago.

This unique and compelling new version takes into account that the reader may have a learning disability, so it's easy to read and understand. Topics build on each other so the reader's knowledge becomes cumulative without dramatic effect and so emotional, biological, and social issues are easily integrated as the reader learns to turn a learning disability into an advantage.

From the author:
“Resilience is the capacity to bounce back; in individuals with LD it's a powerful tool. When people hit the chasm, shame is the outcome. People can withdraw and give up. (Some people take solace in substance abuse to ease the emotional pain.) Others keep trying. In the process of not giving up, people learn to keep hope alive because eventually new opportunities for learning become possible.”

Smart But Stuck, Second Edition examines:
* imprisoned intelligence and resilience—how does it happen?
* shame and resilience
* discovery and diagnosis
* learning to live with the diagnosis
* new reflections
* resilience and fulfilling potential
* neurocognitive foundations of learning disorders
* self-psychology and imprisoned intelligence
* psychotherapy
* fortitude and flexibility in people with learning disabilities
* and much more

Smart But Stuck, Second Edition is a must-read for people with learning disabilities and their families, psychotherapists, social workers, educators, parents, vocational counselors, and college counselors. Please visit www.smartbutstuck.com for more information.

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Foreword (Joseph Palombo)
Author’s Note
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Imprisoned Intelligence in Resilient People
SECTION I: WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT LEARNING DISABILITIES, IMPRISONED INTELLIGENCE, AND RESILIENCE
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. Shame and Resilience
Shame
Resilience: The Antidote to Shame
Chapter 3. Something Is Wrong with Me: A Chasm in Learning
Bewilderment
Being Stuck: 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: Becoming Resilient
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. Resilience and Fulfilling Potential
Facing the Problem
Facing the Chasm: The Biggest Challenge
Finding Support
Finding Appropriate Professional Help
Chapter 8. Conclusions
SECTION II: PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC, HISTORICAL, AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 9. Psychotherapy: A Lantern for the Darkness
Is Psychotherapy Necessary?
What Can Be Expected from Psychotherapy?
Things Learned in Therapy
Chapter 10. Treatment: A Chapter for Therapists and Interested People
Introduction
Recognition: Helping People Become Aware
Integration
Conclusions
Chapter 11. Resilience: Fortitude and Flexibility in People with Learning Disabilities (Myrna Orenstein and Fred Levin)
Introduction
Resilience: Some Further Background
Fortitude: The Driving Force
Flexibility
Environmental Releasers: The Self’s Experience of the Input of Others
Competence
Conclusion
Chapter 12. Neurocognitive Foundations of Learning Disorders and the Chasm Experience (Jay Einhorn)
Neurocognitive Foundations of Learning Disorders 8 Neurocognitive Basis for Learning Disorders
Neurocognitive Basis for Learning and Attention Disorders
Neurocognitive Foundations of Self
Chapter 13. 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
Resilience
Chapter 14. 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
Recommended Reading
Bibliography
Index
Reference Notes Included

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Smart But Stuck How Resilience Frees Imprisoned Intelligence from Learning Disabilities, Second Edition

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