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Disability therapy and Valerie Sinason

David O'Driscoll (Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Stevenage, UK and Chair at the Institute of Psychotherapy, UK)

Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities

ISSN: 2044-1282

Article publication date: 18 April 2022

Issue publication date: 21 October 2022

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Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to discuss the work of Dr Valerie Sinason and her contribution to working with people with an intellectual disability with psychotherapy.

Design/methodology/approach

Dr Valerie Sinason is a psychoanalyst, and the author is trained in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Findings

The author believes there is important value in reading Valerie Sinason's contribution to the literature of psychotherapy with people with intellectual disabilities.

Originality/value

It is a review of Sinason’s contribution, and the author believes she's very original and important thinker.

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Acknowledgements

The author would like to acknowledge Prof Nigel Beail and an anonymous reviewers for their help in the paper.

Citation

O'Driscoll, D. (2022), "Disability therapy and Valerie Sinason", Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, Vol. 16 No. 3, pp. 179-183. https://doi.org/10.1108/AMHID-02-2022-0008

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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