The book shows the contribution which psychoanalysis can offer to the debate on severe handicap and its treatment. The author, Angelo Villa, relies on a solid theoretical basis, consisting in phenomenological psychiatry, Lacanian psychoanalysis, a reinterpretation of Hegel's philosophy as elaborated by Kojeve and his own vast clinical experience, introduced in the form of snapshots of the world of handicap.Psychoanalysis and Severe Handicap introduces a Lacanian look on handicap, a look aimed at capturing the subjectivity, no matter how weak or uncertain it may be, of the ill Other. In...