@article {Beaumont:1991:0266-8734:261, author = "Beaumont, Mia", title = "Reading between the lines: The child's fear of meaningThis paper was originally given in Chicago in August 1989 at the Fifth International Educational Therapy Conference.", journal = "Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy", volume = "5", year = "1991", abstract = "This paper explores the emotional factors that lie behind a child's failure to read. My observations are based on work as an educational therapist employed in a child guidance unit. In trying to understand the reasons for the child's neurotic reluctance to learn, the following sources have proved helpful: Klein on envy; Bowlby on the effect on the child of a relationship with an untrustworthy adult; and Bettelheim's Learning to Read . In conclusion some ways are examined in which the child can be helped to overcome his fear of the meaning of words.", pages = "261-269(9)", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/rpps/1991/00000005/00000003/art00005" doi = "doi:10.1080/02668739100700131" }