| Being Human Contributor(s): König, Karl (Author), Glöckler, Michaela (Foreword by), Pietzner, Cornelius (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0880102802 ISBN-13: 9780880102803 Publisher: Steiner Books OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1994 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Pediatrics |
| Dewey: 618.928 |
| LCCN: 89018086 |
| Physical Information: 0.35" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.44 lbs) 156 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. K nig'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. 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. ∞ ∞ ∞ CONTENTS: Foreword by Michaela Gl ckler PART I Three Ways of Diagnosing PART II An Introduction to Convulsive Disorders |
Contributor Bio(s): Konig, Karl: - 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.Glockler, Michaela: - Dr. Michaela Glöckler has been Leader of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum, the School of Spiritual Science in Dornach, Switzerland since 1988. She attended the Waldorf School in Stuttgart, then studied German language, literature, and history in Freiburg and Heidelberg. She studied medicine in Tübingen and Marburg and trained as a pediatrician at the community hospital in Herdecke and at the Bochum University Pediatric Clinic. Until 1988 she was a colleague in the children's outpatient clinic at the Community Hospital in Herdecke and served as school doctor for the Rudolf Steiner School in Witten, Germany. Michaela has many publications in German, many of which have been published in English. |