Disability therapy and Valerie Sinason
Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities
ISSN: 2044-1282
Article publication date: 18 April 2022
Issue publication date: 21 October 2022
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
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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