Being Human

The Theories, Practice, and Influence of Valerie Sinason
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78220-453-4
Verlag: Karnac Books

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 230 mm

Reihe: The Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability Monograph

Dr Valerie Sinason is regarded widely as being the mother of Disability Therapy. Her pioneering work with children and adults with intellectual disabilities opened the consulting room door to those who had previously been thought of as unreachable and untreatable. She has transformed clinical thinking through her unique blend of rich theoretical knowledge, deeply relational methods and her ability to translate the complexity of psychoanalytic thinking into accessible and beautiful language. Being Human charts the impact of her work upon a generation of clinicians. Taking as its springboard Dr Sinason's seminal 1992 work Mental Handicap and the Human Condition, and the many papers and books that preceded and followed it, Being Human examines how contemporary Disability Therapists have discovered, used and adapted such pioneering concepts as the Handicapped Smile and Secondary Handicap as a Defence Against Trauma in their clinical work. It features luminaries in the disability field and clinicians from those places across the globe where Dr Sinason's teaching and supervision have transformed services with the multiply disabled and abused.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Corbett, Alan

Über Autor(innen)

Corbett, Alan
Dr Alan Corbett was Chair of the Training Committee of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability, and a member of the Training Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. He was Director of Respond, National Clinical Director of the CARI Foundation, and Clinical Director of ICAP. He was a training analyst and supervisor, a psychotherapist with the School of Life, Consultant Psychotherapist with the Clinic for Dissociative Studies, and consulted to a wide range of organisations. He also taught on a number of psychoanalytic trainings in Britain and Ireland, lectured internationally and published widely on disability, psychotherapy and trauma.