Insights from the blind

by Selma H. Fraiberg

CLEAN 1st Printing PAPERBACK

297 pages, Paperback

First published July 19, 1977

About the author

Selma Fraiberg (1918–1981) was a child psychoanalyst, author and social worker. She studied infants with congenital blindness in the 1970s. She found that blind babies had three problems to overcome: learning to recognize parents from sound alone, learning about permanence of objects, acquiring a typical or healthy self image. She also found that vision acts as a way of pulling other sensory modalities together and with out sight babies are delayed. In addition to her work with blind babies, she also was one of the founders of the field of infant mental health and developed mental health treatment apporaches for infants, toddlers and their families.