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SUMMARY:Do you Read Me?
DESCRIPTION:Do You Read Me?\nJohn F Miller\nLearning disabilities and emoti
 onal problems in the child population are rising exponentially. The Childr
 en’s Society estimates that in one in six children have significant ment
 al health problems. Over a thousand children are permanently excluded from
  state primary schools because they are uncontrollable or unteachable\, ye
 t there are no educational facilities or treatments for them. But although
  lack of resources and denial of the problem are significant contributory 
 factors\, there is a much deeper problem embedded in our culture: the deni
 al of psychic reality and of meaning.\n\nThis is particularly evident in t
 he response to children with difficulties in acquiring basic skills of rea
 ding and writing. My thesis is that concepts such as dyslexia and ADHD are
  both conceptually flawed and unscientific and are unconsciously motivated
  by the general desire not to try and understand the individuality of each
  child by treating them as if they were electronic devices with a faulty c
 ircuit.\n\nI illustrate my discussion with examples from 40 years of pract
 ising educational psychology as well as analysis of adolescents and adults
 .\n\nJF Miller read psychology and philosophy at St Catherine’s College 
 Oxford and did his postgraduate qualification in educational psychology at
  the Tavistock clinic after several years of teaching experience in East L
 ondon. He was for six years the County psychologist for West Oxfordshire w
 here he introduced Jungian art and drama therapy treatments for children
 ’s learning and behaviour problems. He worked as a consultant residentia
 l social worker in a children’s home in Norway during a sabbatical year.
  He has for 40 years been in full-time analytical practice\, continuing to
  do some educational psychology in the form of assessments\, family therap
 y and providing consultancy to local primary schools with high levels of s
 pecial needs.\n\nHe has written numerous articles and book chapters on lea
 rning difficulties and communication problems. His first book “The Trium
 phant Victim” on sadomasochism was published in 2013 and “Do You Read 
 Me?” On dyslexia and denial of meaning\, in 2015.\n\nOnline CPD event
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