Intellectual Disability and Psychotherapy

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.

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