Intellectual Disability and Psychotherapy

The Theories, Practice and Influence of Valerie Sinason
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-32361-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

Intellectual Disability and Psychotherapy: The Theories, Practice and Influence of Valerie Sinason charts the transformative impact of the noted psychotherapist’s work with children and adults with intellectual disabilities upon both a generation of clinicians and the treatment and services delivered by them.

Examining 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, the book includes contributions from renowned practitioners and clinicians from around the world. It shines a light on how Sinason’s work opened doors for working with people who were previously thought of as unreachable.

Intellectual Disability and Psychotherapy will be an essential resource to anyone working with children or adults with disabilities, as well as psychotherapists interested in exploring Valerie Sinason’s work.

Zielgruppe

Professional and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Corbett, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Notes on contributors

Foreword by SUSIE ORBACH

Introduction
ALAN CORBETT

Including the excluded: Valerie Sinason, psychoanalytic pioneer

GRAEME GALTON

Creativity and the analytic condition: creative arts approaches within a psychoanalytic frame

EIMIR McGRATH

We are who we see looking back at us: Valerie as a supporter of a developing organisation
ALAN CORBETT and TAMSIN COTTIS

The handicapped smile: language and identity
LIZ LLOYD

Death, loss, and the struggle for non-disabled grief
NOELLE BLACKMAN

Forensic groupwork and Books Beyond Words: Valerie Sinason as colleague, co-author, and friend
SHEILA HOLLINS

The best of both worlds: the making of a disability psychiatrist
GEORGINA PARKES

Building insight and changing lives: the contribution of Valerie Sinason to the history of disability psychotherapy

DAVID O’DRISCOLL

Sharing our history, informing our future: Valerie Sinason and the development of training for frontline care workers and therapists
PAT FRANKISH

Secondary handicap and a model for the supervision of nurses
SHULA WILSON

Labels, death-making and an alternative to Social Role Valorisation: Valerie Sinason’s influence on my work
JAN WALMSLEY

Valerie Sinason, South Africa, and the politics of seeing
LESLIE SWARTZ

Like an owl in a tree: learning from Valerie Sinason in treating patients’ intellectual disabilities in Sweden
ANDERS SVENSSON

Valerie Sinason and the psychodynamics of bravery

BRETT KAHR

An interview with Valerie Sinason reflecting on her life and the evolution of disability psychotherapy
ALAN CORBETT

Über Autor(innen)

Alan Corbett (1963-2016) was the author of a number of books, chapters, and papers on aspects of working psychoanalytically with trauma, abuse, and disability. Alan worked as a psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice and had been Clinical Director of Respond, ICAP, and the CARI Foundation in Dublin.