Secondary handicap

Secondary handicap

Symington in 1981 while studying patients with learning disabilities, found that his patients level of handicap would vary considerably suggesting that not all of the handicap was organic. Sinason later developed this concept and described a number of defence mechanisms frequently employed by mentally handicapped individuals to protect them from the 'awfulness of realizing they are different'. These defence mechanisms are defences against meaning and constitute secondary handicaps which complicate the original handicap. Skills and intelligence present are attacked and denied. [http://www.valeriesinason.com/sinason%20contribution%20to%20psychotherapy.htm]


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